[Elecraft] OT: Heathkit Catalogs

[VE3GAM]

when I started working in 68, the company I worked for had an IBM model 30 
with 32K of memory,
card readers and all, tapes, not sure about disk drives, but guys preceding 
me had written the mortgage
program for it in COBOL I believe, on punched cards no less.  long time ago, 
hard to believe the progess
in the last many years, still it was an awesome and scary night when we 
finally decommisioned the card
reader a lot of years later!

pcs, small radios, cell phones, screens, microwaves, none of that was dreamt 
of yet.  most of what we take
for granted today and use every day did not exist even 30 years ago.

al ve3gam


Interesting info Dave. The computer on the 1970s Voyager space probe had a 
whopping 68K of memory total! And that was multitasking.
Source: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/faq.html

73 Darrell AB2E