From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mike.ab3ap@gmail.com (Mike Markowski) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:55:44 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems In-Reply-To: <20180321235033.GJ9739@mcvoy.com> References: <20180321141753.25C4418C088@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <6c6699c0-15db-604a-181c-7dad282599e1@kilonet.net> <20180321202810.GA6280@minnie.tuhs.org> <4ED5DE5D-B2FC-4018-B4A8-2639CDB2073E@jctaylor.com> <394bc27c-8dff-03e1-9e13-9536a4ba195f@kilonet.net> <20180321235033.GJ9739@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On 03/21/2018 07:50 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX, but >> inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space. >> >> And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for $1000. >> I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives... > > I was sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk and 20 users. That > was, um, "fun". I remember Masscomp... We used one (I forget model) in the field in the late 80s in the back of a tractor trailer. We'd capture radar signals with it because it allowed data acquisition to not be swapped out. It was a very expensive failure if, just as you started getting the short radar return, something like system logging swapped you out for a little! Mike Markowski