FYI

[Dan Jenkins]

On 4/27/2013 5:17 PM, maddog at li.org wrote:
>> I remember it taking 48 hours to prep a 40 MB (not GB) MFM hard
>> drive for Novell Netware oh so many years ago.
>
>>> We are so spoiled nowadays - generally just pop drives in and
>>> go.
>
> Now we start in with "YOU HAD A 40 MB drive?"   Well *I* used to have
> to store my data on paper tape, and it was snowing and uphill both
> ways!!

I used 80-column punch cards (Digital TOPS-10), 96-column punch cards
(IBM System/3) and paper tape (PDP-8/E with a Teletype Model 33 paper
tape reader and punch), back in the day.

Since it only snowed 2/3 of the year and there was only a slight hill,
one-way to the IBM server, you've got me beat. :-)

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Dan Jenkins