Mudcat Café message #3428884

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Thread #147800 Message #3428884
Posted By: DMcG
31-Oct-12 - 11:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: You think Your Hard Drive Is Big Enough?
Subject: RE: BS: You think Your Hard Drive Is Big Enough?

One of the first machines I used was an IBM with no hard drive. It had IBM-DOS (2.4 or something?)

Are we getting into 'when I was a lad?' stories? The first machine I used was an IBM1620, with no disk and 40K decimal (BCD) digits - it didn't understand binary. It could neither add nor multiply in hardware, but part of the memory was reserved for a lookup table of answers for such sophisticated stuff.