metasuperhyper (October 12, 2008 at 8:41 am)

i don't think they had a compiler... propably assembly language.

metasuperhyper (October 12, 2008 at 8:40 am)

used to be compact back then. in another 50 years, your average desktop PC would be less than a cubic inch in size.

DTanza (September 13, 2008 at 5:58 pm)

Yep it`s 51 years ago today since those were first introduced.

maxrioseco (September 10, 2008 at 8:12 am)

xDD lol debugging this ahaha xDD

everestfalls (September 7, 2008 at 8:25 am)

COMPACT? WTF LOL

bobamu (August 31, 2008 at 1:31 pm)

man, that's a lot of wires :D in 50 years time our current computers will look even more antique :D

akiratrooper (August 20, 2008 at 4:39 pm)

but still, SSD's produce great heat... it'll take some time before they develop a real HDD replacement

kurizzos (August 18, 2008 at 7:19 am)

Holy krap! Has anyone ever had seen the size of those HDDs? Plus, if you've programmed those mainframes with punch cards back then, it must've been hell to wait to see your syntax errors come out the compiler after a hour long wait. I'll never complain about a slow C++ compiler again. :)

motonymph (August 8, 2008 at 3:12 pm)

As a girl, I'd go on one Saturday a month with my father where he worked on these machines. Lots of noise in a big warm room with fans, elevated floors containing miles of wire that he sometimes needed to replace and rework. It was neat-o. I would rollerskate on those floors.

jay52592 (July 19, 2008 at 5:11 am)

Back then 5 MHz was very very fast!