"Tim" wrote in message
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On Aug 19, 3:14 pm, Wayne B wrote:
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:39:10 -0400, wrote:
The RADAR we had in 1965 probably wasn't as good as what you have on
your trawler today.

No question about it. It would have taken a whole ship full of
electronics to duplicate the functionality, just like with computer
equipment. The CPU power and storage of our three laptops would have
taken an entire large scale data center, and the high speed data
bandwidth that we now take for granted didn't even exist. I had a few
summer jobs with AT&T during he early '60s and 1200 baud was high
speed datacomm at that time.

"...and 1200 baud was high speed datacomm at that time. "

Blinding speed!

?8^0

Reply:
I was the maintenance Field Engineer for an on-line data center for banks.
Mid 1960's. Data center located in San Francisco and we had customers from
the Canadian border to Salt Lake City. 110 Baud lease lines.