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You aren’t that young so you must be drinking in your yoga pants.
It's summer here in S. Texas, so I'm cruising up the road in my LJR with Led Zep blasting Whole Lotta Love from my after market audio system. Pull up to the light and kids in next car roll down their windows and ask where can they find that kind of music. Priceless.
Close to it..... OK not that they were common in 1976-77 but this was a computer back then.
What were computers like in the 1970s?
At the beginning of the 1970s there were essentially two types of computers. There were room-sized mainframes, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars, that were built one at a time by companies such as IBM and CDC.
There also were smaller, cheaper, mass-produced minicomputers, costing tens of thousands of dollars, that were built by a handful of companies, such as Digital Equipment Corporation and Hewlett-Packard Company, for scientific laboratories and businesses.
Still, most people had no direct contact with either type of computer, and the machines were popularly viewed as impersonal giant brains that threatened to eliminate jobs through automation. The idea that anyone would have his or her own desktop computer was generally regarded as far-fetched. Nevertheless, with advances in integrated circuit technology, the necessary building blocks for desktop computing began to emerge in the early 1970s.
In 1970, I was deployed on the USNS Harkness. We had two DEC PDP-9 computers, linked with a common drum storage unit. System was six feet tall, 20 feet wide, and 6 feet deep. I/O was via paper punched tape or KSR-35 current loop teletype console. The computers were used primarily for data acquisition and storage. Each PDP-9 had actual core memory, with little magnetic cores wired in an X-Y matrix with a Z sense wire running diagonally through the cores. They were laying on a piece of foam inside the rear door. CPU speed was 26 kHz. Yes, kilo-Hertz. Circuitry was paddle boards plugged into a 6' x 3' wire wrapped assembly. Each paddle board was a couple of AND gates or similar logic circuitry, using discrete components, like transistors, diodes, and resistors.
They were replaced in 1974 with HP mini computers the size of a microwave.
That thar's funny - I don't care who you are. I haven't laughed this hard in quite a while! Well played.
The big tube tv’s that followed weren’t light either.
I had a 30" or 32" Sony Trinitron TV.
It had to weigh 150+.
It was still working great when I got rid of it.
It had to weigh 150+.
It was still working great when I got rid of it.
I had a 32” trinitron Wega that had a built in sub in the back of it. I seem to remember it was pushing 200 lbs.
No they weren't - I fortunately never had to wrassle one of those things. 25 inch (diagonal measure as they always told us) TVs were as big as they got!
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