Some interesting facts about computing history. The early days.

The computers of old did not use modern microchip Random Access Memory as we do today; one method of storing data temporarily was with the use of magnetic core memory. This involves tiny rings of magnetized iron threaded onto a wire mat, this was expensive to make; but it had a good access time and … Read more

The old computers that led us into the computing revolution. The 10,000 dollar PDP-8.

This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more powerful PDP-9 had twice the RAM, 8 Kilobytes to be precise and cost only 35,000 dollars. But with … Read more