[GNC] Database storage

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 9/19/2024 3:53 PM, Steve Butler wrote:
> My first job out of college had a Honeywell 115 Mod 2 box.  Hard drive 
> (singular) was 10 MB.  RAM was 32K of magnetic core.  6 bit CPU and 7 
> track 556 bpi tape (3 of them).
>
> Thought we were going to heaven when it was replaced by an HP 3000 
> with 7 hard drives of 47 MB each and 512 KB memory.
>
It would have been ~1960. I and a HS friend made a small 4 bit machine 
that was actually advanced for its day as 100% solid state. Transistor 
flip flops and Burroughs magnetic donuts had strung in a cigar ox for 
"core".

Michael D Novack