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1 Gigabyte
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Beach Runner
beats on hood
I remember when each student in a programming class at UF was only allocated 16K of storage on the mainframe at NERDC (Northeast Regional Data Center), the computer center at UF.
I remember punched cards and dropping them. OOPS!
I remember when the computer lab at the University of South Carolina got a tape drive for the TRASH 80's so we didn't have to retype programs every time we ran them -- we could actually STORE them.
Hubby just showed me an ad for a terabyte external hard drive for, like $50.
I remember punched cards and dropping them. OOPS!
I remember when the computer lab at the University of South Carolina got a tape drive for the TRASH 80's so we didn't have to retype programs every time we ran them -- we could actually STORE them.
Hubby just showed me an ad for a terabyte external hard drive for, like $50.
Douglas the Intrepid
Beach Fanatic
NERDC?!? Omg, that is too funny! :funn:
30ashopper
SoWal Insider
They invented new computers after the Apple ][? Why? 
Beach Runner
beats on hood
It really is. We used to spend Friday nights at NERDC. We were poor, married, grad students then, so that's what we did on Fridays for entertainment. NERD ALERT!
But Saturdays were fun times -- Gator football or basketball games.
LuciferSam
Banned
I remember 70 MEGabyte hard drives housed in units the size of personal computers and costing $6000 back in 1984. In 1994 a gigabyte hard drive cost about $1000.00. Now it sounds like you can get a gigabyte of storage for couch change. As far as I'm concerned, the cost of living has gone way down.
30ABandMan
Beach Fanatic
The fire of youth still burns in my veins... ;P~
My first computer was a TI994a for my 15th birthday back in 1984. lol It had a sweet speech processor thanks to Texas Instruments government contracting work of the time. You could program it to say anything, which back then was a very big deal....ah, the good old days... lol
God, I remember sitting in "computer class" back in high school. We would have to type in this long string of code just to get the damn screen to change colors. We thought we were awesome...
Beach Runner
beats on hood
Au contraire, mon frere.
It's Northeast. NERDC - What does NERDC stand for? Acronyms and abbreviations by the Free Online Dictionary.
Matt J
SWGB
Sorry I forgot there were several. Of course isn't UF in central Florida?
The one in Tallahassee was fun to watch in action. Nothing like a computer that requires liquid nitrogen tanks and pumps.