{"id":1688,"date":"2009-10-24T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T16:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2009-10-24T12:25:50","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T16:25:50","slug":"%e2%80%9c640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1688","title":{"rendered":"\u201c640K ought to be enough for anybody.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted pictures of this little cutie from my <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">trash<\/span> treasure collection. It&#8217;s 8k of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetic_core_memory\">magnetic core memory<\/a> from a <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.computerhistory.org\/resources\/text\/GE\/GE.235.1964.102646091.pdf\">GE-235<\/a> (I think) digital info processing unit &#8211; warning &#8211; 235 link is to a pdf, but a worthwhile one. If you open the pdf, check the disk drive in the upper right of page two. It&#8217;s footprint was roughly the size of a chest freezer and it had big@ss pneumatic hoses that actuated the arms carrying the heads. Also check the printer control panel on page four &#8211; I have just the panel itself in the basement, waiting for me to get inspired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This is why core dumps are (or were) so named &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psych.usyd.edu.au\/pdp-11\/core.html\">little donuts<\/a>, one per bit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2487\/4040032512_e82774ce07_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2487\/4040032512_e82774ce07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They weren&#8217;t exactly mass producing these back in 1966.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2767\/4039280421_0fef387e04_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2767\/4039280421_0fef387e04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The nameplate:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2662\/4040031654_18a2135de7_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2662\/4040031654_18a2135de7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>And<a href=\"http:\/\/imranontech.com\/2007\/02\/20\/did-bill-gates-say-the-640k-line\/\"> click here<\/a> for a &#8216;did he really say it&#8217; regarding the post&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted pictures of this little cutie from my trash treasure collection. It&#8217;s 8k of magnetic core memory from a GE-235 (I think) digital info processing unit &#8211; warning &#8211; 235 link is to a pdf, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/1688\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,21,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-sys","category-random-stuff","category-wunderkammer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-re","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}