You know your getting older when.......

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Sailchaser

when a memory chip for a computer was a stack of punch cards 8 inches high to spell your name

That's funny. I took a computer class a 'while' ago that dealt with the basic science of punchcards and how the computer read them. A hard drive at that time was the size of a washing machine. Two or three megabytes of storage. Incredible.