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Ever wonder who your hard drive's father is? (Download Squad)

Jul 28th 2009 7:11PM 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.

Packard Bell imedia lineup gets an Acer-inspired refresh (Engadget)

Jul 3rd 2009 4:49PM Ahhh, so the PB name still lives. When IBM/Intel came out with the PC/AT architecture using the Intel 386 chip, I bought a Packard Bell computer. While I know that PB had a horrible reputation, and the Compuserve forums were filled with PB horror stories, I had no problems with mine. It served me well for many years, and I even upgraded it a couple of times. I finally replaced it when a move to Windows became inevitable. Fond memories, indeed.

Win a bag of CES swag! (Engadget)

Jan 26th 2009 12:33AM I'm only doing this for a chance to win carp. Some wild animal decimated the carp population in my pond, so I could use some more. Oh, wait, that's crap, not carp!!! Oh well, if it's plastic crap, at least it won't rust!

10 essential web apps for bloggers (Download Squad)

Sep 4th 2008 8:10PM Love the picture, an IBM 360/40. I worked on these guys back in the late 60's. Only the ones I used had the faster 2400 tape drives.