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Originally Posted by snide
Ah, the good old days. When I started in IT, we were using DataPoint hardware. For the clients who could afford hard disk drives, they we as you described. And we had clients who used the 8 inch floppy disks.
When the IBM PC AT came out, a number of DataPoint employees had developed the programming language to run on PCs. We converted a number of clients to PC based LAN systems and their computing power increased 10 fold.
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Started in the '80s. First large computer system was a IBM 8100. It had 8" or larger FDD for the OS. Huge cabinets about the size freezers for HDD. The IBM CE had to replace one them one day. It weighed 70lbs. for the HDD and only stored a few MB of data.