20 years of technology

[dadof4]

Here is what happens to technology in 20 years.

On the table is a Hard Drive out of an IBM mainframe. Specifically, DASD storage, attached to a mainframe. Circa, IBM 3090 / 3380. The storage capacity of the HDA is 1 GIG. The entire assembly is replaced in the field. Pull the old one out, put a new one in. They weigh about 100 pounds.

Next to that, is a memory card being held in the fingertips of someone else. The capacity of the memory stick is 1 GIG.

[feistylady]

that is amazing!

[DBCooper]

Anyone remember the 5 1/4" floppy? or better yet the timex sinclair? Trash 80's and punch cards..... Sperry Univac or CGA graphics....... What our grandkids will never know.... The 200 dollar calculator....

[Wilbur]

I remember having to write a simple BASIC program and punch it out on punchcards at one of those huge IBM punchcard consoles for a stats class back in college. Had a KAYPRO luggable for awhile too. Such a freakin' relic, I am.....

[feistylady]

it sounds to me that most of us squawking at each other are almost over the hill, so to speak!! It is amazing how much we have seen change since we started working. What I always chuckled about was that computers were going to eliminate paper, but in my job, I think there was so much more generated after computers came on the scene. What a joke that all was!

[Mama Mia]

Originally Posted by Wilbur

I remember having to write a simple BASIC program and punch it out on punchcards at one of those huge IBM punchcard consoles for a stats class back in college. Had a KAYPRO luggable for awhile too. Such a freakin' relic, I am.....

Wilbur....I remember them!!! Way back when, I went to business college in San Francisco and I did keypunch on those "hugh" machines. We used to enter data and it came out on a little card with all the holes in it...the cards were fed into another machine and "poof" all the information came out!!!! Gawd....it was so boring sitting there all day doing that and no wonder I have arthritis in my hands.....I also worked for a company that had a 1929 switchboard...the old fashioned kind with all the cords...if I got confused about what department the people wanted, I just pulled all the cords out and let them all call back.....

[ProDeveloper]

I remember when we used to paint on the inside of the cave. Boring stuff, us chasing buffalo an' stuff.

[lab_lover]

Originally Posted by ProDeveloper

I remember when we used to paint on the inside of the cave. Boring stuff, us chasing buffalo an' stuff.

[DBCooper]

Slide rulers were already relics by the time I went to school. With todays GPS and Magellan type devices I can see the day coming that maps will be a thing of the past. Imagine the cartographers that will be looking for work. Not far over the horizon will be a completely changed world. Fasten your seat belts.

[feistylady]

It is funny, I thought the same thing about GPS and mapes. What I love about our GPS is that since I get motion sickness, how nice it is to not have to read a map anymore in the car! Being the direction finder is a job that I have been happy to give up to Navigator Jane.