Re: Simpana
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:07:14 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <e2256773-718e-42ff-9eab-ba3daec7aeb2_at_googlegroups.com>
On Friday, August 3, 2012 1:19:42 PM UTC-6, joel garry wrote:
> On Aug 3, 11:14 am, महेश కుమార్ G.M.K <maheshkuma..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:13:46 PM UTC+5:30, joel garry wrote:
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> > > On Jul 16, 5:35 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I have several generations of tapes and associated hardware in my
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> > > basement, that I'll never even turn on. How silly is that? My last
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> > > home PDP backup was around the end of 1987.
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> > > jg
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> > the last backup in 1987? i was born at that time. great to see even backups were taken at that time where technology of computers was in the beginning phase.
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> rotflmao!
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> Actually, my first paid computer job as a junior programmer had me
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> backing up the minicomputer in 1980. Two 20M drives a bit larger than
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> a washing machine, with disk platters the size of a birthday cake in a
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> cake dish. It was a bit of a workout carrying those back and forth
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> between buildings. It was a big improvement when we got 300M drives
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> and a new Kennedy 9-track tape drive!
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> This one is nicer than the one we had:
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> http://www.hschumacher.de/assets/images/db_images/db_decPDP11-343.jpg
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> jg
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> _at_home.com is bogus.
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> But is it art?
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> http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/exclusive-san-diego-museum-of-art-had-hand-in-drug/article_f9e2c755-c13a-55c3-b5df-43506b0cfcd1.html
I spent many an hour in college programming on a PDP-11/70, as well as spending countless hours on an audio-coupled terminal running rate equations for chemical processes for my degree (back then the Chemistry department was tossed the hand-offs from Computer Science so while students programming COBOL, Assembly (IBM and VAX [do NOT get me started on VAX 'assembly']), FORTRAN, ADA, PL/1 and Lisp got interactive terminals we got the dial-up lines and TTY terminals.
I remember well lugging huge stacks of punch cards, meticulously organized, holding my precious IBM Assembler programs (we did eventually get to interactive terminals before the semester end) and hauling the same sort of disks Joel mentioned for the PDP-11 and thinking, believe it or not, that substantial progress had been made in storage technology. Of course those are nothing like we have today -- terabytes of storage on a disk no larger than an old car radio used to be, gigabytes of storage on a memory card that could get lost on a key chain.
I also remember Oracle version 6 where both hot backups and PL/SQL were introduced. How far we've come since then.
Those were the days.
David Fitzjarrell Received on Fri Aug 03 2012 - 16:07:14 CDT