Lauren WeinsteinWhen you catch yourself referring to a two terabyte hard drive as "tiny" ...
WeaselRemember booting and running Unix v6 off of a 2.5MB RK05 hard drive?
@weaselx86 Yep. We occasionally booted the "A" machine off a DECtape. I still have a drawer full of those babies. And paper tapes.
Yes, I remember watching the B machine swap off the DECtape one day after its RK05 drive died. Slow as hell, but it worked -- back and forth and back and forth.
@weaselx86 I've told the story of my coming in one evening and the machine ("A" I think) seemed dead. But I got a prompt, and when I typed, stuff would happen, EXTREMELY slowly. Booting didn't help. Turned out the RTC circuit had died and UNIX was scheduling based on my keyboard interrupts!