Recently, at a customer site, I saw a Control Data memory board, 8k, about
1/4 sq. meter (or 2.5 sq. feet, if you like). Customer told me it dated back
to some time in the early 70s, he did not exactly remember when.

Another customer of mine has an HP 7905 disk. Not the full mechanism,
though, just the disk (or disc ?) medium. He complains he can't use it as a
dartboard because darts don't penetrate the surface. Seems these darts are
wildly outperformed by a standard R/W head : the disc (or disk ?) has a
biiiiig trace on its surface left by a landing head. I think the 7905 was
current at the time the first HP3000s were introduced, no need to tell when.

Christian Lheureux
Responsable du Département Systèmes et Réseaux / Head of Systems and
Networks Department
APPIC R.H.
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> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de Roy Brown
> Envoyé : mercredi 27 février 2002 13:47
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> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] fun contest - oldest computer relic you have
>
>
> "Christian Lheureux" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
> news:a5i6db02h30@enews4.newsguy.com...
> > The president of our company has an MPE III Pocket Guide.
> How does this
> one
> > rank ?
>
> Not bad for a latecomer :-)
>
> (Mine's MPE III as well. Sits next to my HP3000 APL manual
> and my Series III
> GIN).
>
> My Sinclair ZX81, with its 16k RAM Pack, is of course looked
> down on by ZX80
> owners.
>
> I had a book with the ZX81 - 'What can I do with 1k?' - a
> series of Basic
> programs that would run on the machine even without its RAM
> pack. You typed
> them in from the listings provided....
>
> It made the warning with my PC QuickBasic 4.0, that it
> spanned more than one
> floppy disc and could take as much as 2mB of disc space when
> loaded, seem
> infinitely futuristic.
>
> Now, just the Jungle Theme sounds alone are half as much again....
>
>
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> Roy Brown
>
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