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Technology from the 80s

By rai

8 years ago

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I was a little kid in the 80s, but my family did get the original IBM PC, with dual floppy drives (no hard drive). I still have it, packed up in its original box. It may even still work. I want to set it up some day and find out -- boot up the good ol' DOS 1.0 and see if I can get King's Quest or Hitchhiker's Guide running.

When I was about 7 years old, I began teaching myself programming by copying the programs out of the back of BYTE Magazine, and then modifying the code. Our elementary school had a very good computer program as well, where we learned LOGO, a simple programming language for drawing shapes procedurally.

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You are so correct; It's been a while since I even held one in my hand... let alone cut the slot out on the other side to get double sided storage. I was out of my office until this morning.... and wanted to include some extra fun.
The standard is "pics or it did not happen... so". I included a marker in the shots to give some scale.
8", 5 1/4" and a 3.5" Floppy
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PunchCard
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6150 Cassette Tape
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Bernoulli Cartridge - VERY 80's tech. This was cutting edge at the time. "Infinite Storage"
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Mainframe B&T Terminator
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Standard Reel-Reel tape
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After reels, the 3490E was the standard
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This little bad-boy is an 3850 Mass Storage cartridge. Stored in a hard plastic shell, it sits in a honeycomb of cells. Once the robot gets the request, the cell is addressed, the shell is removed and the robot mounts the tape. Early 90's but still fun.
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Boring DLT Tape
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This is my favorite. Definitely 90's tech, but it needs to go in the mix.
This is a 7GB optical platter. That huge floppy disk design has real glass inside. We burned these onsite for long term storage. I pulled it open so you can see the platter.... it's just like a huge floppy. Heavy too.
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Getting the S1 Drive out is a PITA.. but you can see it on the bottom of my media collection
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faz

Splunk is overpriced. Just set up an elastic / logstash / Kibana stack for free instead.

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