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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183201

Just a few pictures to share..the way we were.










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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183202

The last one is scary, I am especially pleased that Ryanair pilots do this.

Home to black Alfa Romeo 159 3.2 V6 Q4 ,green MGF VVC and red MG Maestro T16.

MG - the friendly marque.

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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183233

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I didn't know that hard drives have been around exactly as long as me.....

Had a quick look, the RAMAC IBM first went into commercial use in 1957 having been developed from 1953.
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I believe the 5mb hard drive weighed in at 1 ton
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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183239

Looks like this woman is playing the organ at Blackpool Tower....but no she is on her computer.
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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183258

My late dad used to work for IBM and service those! They ran on magnetic tape and were huge!

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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183261

Your dad must of been a very clever guy....those computers remind me of those on the Italian job...you know the one..where they changed the reels to cause confusion about the city.
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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183262

The computers on the italian job were italian they were the elea9003...Elea standing for elaboratore elettronico aritmetico.this computer was introduced in 1959.



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Interesting stuff! I saw the dawning of industrial computing in the power industry in the seventies. We were always a bit behind tech wise due the build time of large power plant.

Had to look up PB I only know up to Terra! 1 petabyte = one million Gigabytes.. Scary stuff! Giga = 1000 million.
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The only time I had anything to do with computers was back in the 80s when I worked for a company making computers for robotic roof supports in the mines....had to look this up ..1 petabyte is roughly....100,000 gigabytes

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Sorry for pedantry but peta is 10 raised to the power of 15, so 1 PB is a million GB.
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The way we were. 6 years 3 months ago #183277

Unknown teritory for me but I think after the petabyte..come the zeta byte and the exabyte...if someone asked me what they were I would of answer dinosaur.
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