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(Unverified)Jul 29th 2009 12:11AM
In 1964, I was in the Air Force and worked on my first computer. It was an IBM 1410 (a bigger cousin to the famous 1401) and it had a 1301 RAMAC disk unit. That puppy was 6 ft high, and 8 feet long. It had hydraulic actuator arms. When running a disk intensive program, the unit would sway from side to side as the arms moved. If we shut the system down (as we would on holidays), on start-up we had to run a warm-up routine to insure that the arms were moving freely. When the routine ran, the arms would move in and out in a pattern, and it all sounded like an old Model T engine.
Wow, today I sit at my desk, and have a 16x14x6 INCH box that has a multi-core processor, 3 GB of memory (the 1410 had a maximum of 64 Kb), and 2 500 GB disk drives. The communication and graphics capabilities of my computer now, were beyond comprehension back then.