Dev1 Galaxy Forum / A blast from the past...

Re: A blast from the past...

dummy@example.com (ComputerBob) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:33:15 +0000

Ironically, my father worked that job until retirement, but he never learned anything about running any kind of corporate computer, PC, or how to use one to do anything.

He was an expert "car mechanic," but never knew how to drive...

Re: A blast from the past...

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:15:51 +0000

Cool story ComputerBob! I love tales from back in the day. The picture above is especially meaningful to me, as my father worked for NASA back in the 60's, and would have likely worked at some point on the very machine that memory stick was used in.

Re: A blast from the past...

dummy@example.com (ComputerBob) — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 04:36:37 +0000

My father was a Senior CE (customer engineer) for IBM back in the old days. He used to have to wear a WHITE (not light blue!) shirt, and a tie, to go from client to client, and CRAWL through their mainframe computers, to physically remove actual BUGS, replace burned-out vacuum tubes, replace tape drives, etc. I remember the first time that he showed me a big metal box, sitting in the trunk of his car. At the time, he told me that it was IBM's newest mainframe computer. No crawling around inside that thing. LOL!

Re: A blast from the past...

dummy@example.com (laurie_dev1) — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:56:54 +0000

1mb was literally huge back in the 60's.
Very cool.

A blast from the past...

dummy@example.com (greenjeans) — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:44:05 +0000

A single 32k core plane from the IBM 2361 large capacity storage. This one came from the IBM 7094 system at NASA that was used during the later Apollo missions. This is what 1 mb of memory looked like in the mid '60's.