In 1988, I Bought an 80 Megabyte Seagate Hard Drive

[Jarqui]

61. Been there, done that.

Teletype terminals that send punched tape too ...

Even programming, some processors could only handle a handful bytes at a time so you would have to structure your code accordingly. And you'd have to stack various outcomes, etc and whittle them all down in some logical order to get your answer type stuff.

I recall a 100 MB hard disk (which seemed AMAZING/mind boggling when it came out) being around $200,000 and 64K RAM also being around that price (very roughly). I still have the quotes somewhere.

An IBM mainframe I worked on in the early 80s had many tall bookshelves of 1/2"-3" binders full of documentation on the system. It was hundreds of binders. I worked on it for a few years - not full time. You'd start in one binder and it would send you to another and another ... you might go through 20-40 binders ... but you always got your answer. It was like an army of them worked out every conceivable path in advance. Incredible.

There's more going on in your cell phone than the biggest IBM super mainframe of the 60-70s.

And we're just getting started ...