On Dec 4, 9:19 am, wrote:
On Dec 4, 9:15 am, HK wrote:





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On Dec 4, 8:29 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006...puter-1956.jpg

In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard
disk drive(HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

That's not a typo ..... 5MB of data.

Eisboch

I built a computer that did addition in the fifth grade, it was not
nearly that big.

I built a working nuclear cloud chamber for my 7th grade science
project. It worked perfectly. Damned thing incorporated a spark coil
from a Model A Ford.

I take it you don't beleive me, no problem, I don't really think I
have a credibility problem here Me and dad built it on a piece of
plywood with some wooden "T's". It was really suited better for a game
where you get to slide marbles down the chute in ones, twos, or
threes. The idea is to leave your opponent with the last T to turn...
But it was a computer in all practiacl purposes, it worked by switches
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Oh, and it was not an origional idea, I based it on a game I had seen
on TV. Anyway,that year for the science fair I built a working city
with a bicycle generator for working lighting... I got dismissed as
they said I must have had help from dad, even though he was working in
Poughkeepsie at the time and told them I had indeed done it myself.. I
am and have always been a wiz with stuff like that, something called
three dimensional comprehension so beleive what you want, I will do
the same, cough, lobsta' boat, cough....