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Old 22nd May 2020, 8:21 pm   #42
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Default Re: Early personal computers - what for?

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Personal computers were just toys/games machines. Real computers ran off 3 phase supplies, had disc drives the size of washing machines and cost half a million quid. You knew they were real computers, because you couldn't see over the top of them

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........and your App was a stack of punched cards that was at risk on a rainy day as you carried it to the building housing the magic machine which was heavily protected by a layer of bureaucracy. acracy

Martin
I'm not going back THAT far. Thirty five years, not fifty The bureaucracy still applied though.
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