Russell,

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 01:41:07 +1300, Russell McMahon 
wrote:

> I still have a box of punch cards, just for memories 
sake.

I may have some somewhere - or they may have been thrown 
out in a purge at some time...

> And an 8" floppy disk drive.

Hey, I have a pair of these!  Anyone want them?  100k 
single-sided as I remember.

> And some core memory.

Now I never did get my hands on any of that - still has 
some advantages over semiconductor memory, 
non-volatility being the main one.  It always amused me 
that you could turn on a machine and carry on using it 
where it left off!

> Time for uphill both ways in the snow stories again I 
see :-)

Just getting warmed up... :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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