UBER OLD School Computer

[Sweet2th]

My astronomy club has this sitting around collecting dust.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D7eopMX8Ng

Can anyone guess what it is?

Year made-

# of hard drives

[Airscrew]

I'm takin a wag at it.   the monitor looks very similar to a monitor we had on a data entry terminal at Mountain Home in 1986, (and even then it was a year or so old just setting there collecting dust while we waited for the system to be setup while we used a keypunch machine)  it says Digital V1 101 I think.   on the right there those look like they might have 10 or 10 1/2 floppy drives.  I never used one but my wife worked in finance on base and her office had those drives that used huge floppy disks and i think they were 10 inch floppys.    do you have model #s or serial #s?

Year I'd guess 1985 or 86.  # of hard drives hard to say, probably 2 or 3, 10 or 20mg hard drives.  Most of the pcs we had in the hospital in that time period only had 20 meg hard drives

[Ripsnort]

Unix?  I think we used to use a similar computer for simulating PARS in college.

[Catalyst]

similar to a Unisys system I operatored back then...

[Airscrew]

Originally posted by Ripsnort
Unix?  I think we used to use a similar computer for simulating PARS in college.

I'm pretty sure its a Unix system, cause ours was similar looking and was a unix system were we teleneted in to the server at the hospital to do our data entry.

[straffo]

Look like a microvax and some disk bay.

[indy007]

I think I've seen that @ a museum...

Maybe a MiniMinc?

[Shuffler]

I have a working Compaq Suitcase computer... one of the first portables ever made. circa mid 80's

[Airscrew]

ok been looking on and off today and found a bit,  and it might be from 1981 or 82

http://www.dgatx.com/computing/people/Frank-da-Cruz/pubs/2003/CCT/archive.html#1980

[Airscrew]

1978. Identical in appearance to the original VT100 (1977). Adds local echo, which was needed for using the IBM mainframes in linemode (this was before we had 3270/ASCII protocol converters like the IBM Series/1 or 7171).


Construction:          Monitor + detachable keyboard
Display:               24x80 or 14x132 character cells
Character matrix:      7x9 with descenders
Screen size:           12" diagonal (8" x 4.5" active display)
Character set:         Complete US ASCII (128 codes)
Keys:                  65 keys in ANSI X4.14-1971 typewriter layout
Auxilliary keypad:     18 keys (digits, arrows, function keys)
Visual indicators:     7 LEDs
Interface:             RS-232/V.24
Flow control:          Xon/Xoff
Communication Speeds:  75,110,150,300,600,1200,2400,4800,9600,19200 bps
Dimensions:            14.5"x18"14.25" (monitor), 3.5"x18"x8" (keyboard)
Minimum table depth:   20.25"
Weight:                41 pounds

[Airscrew]

ok the RKO7 is the disk drive...

WBC-3000 RK07 INTERFACE
This WBC controller allows replacement of the Digital Equipment Corporation DEC RK07 Disk Drive, a 14-inch removable platter drive with 30mb capacity.

[AquaShrimp]

I learned to type on a state of the art 1981 IBM computer in high school.  This was in 1997/98 btw.

[Airscrew]

My mom made me take Typing I and II and Business Machines in High School 75-76.  I hated it, I was the only guy in class full of girls (well it wasnt all bad) i thought the class was a waste of time and barely passed.  
we used manual typewritters for the first 2 months then brand new IBM electric typewritters.   then I graduate and join the Air Force and learn how to use computers while a lot of the other guys were pumping gas and working at the local feed & seed.  who knew that mom's were so smart..

[FastFwd]

It's a hard disk in 1956....
The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956.
In September 1956, IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a
hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Makes you appreciate your 4 GB USB flashdrive, doesn't it?

[FBplmmr]

its what I think my pc turns into whenever there is more than 10 people in a furball:(