Hello all,
This is my very first post on your forum.
Actually I am a long time user of Linux in several flavors, but I am not that techie.
I am living in the Netherlands, Europe.
I started computing back in the seventies, working with an IBM as big as your bedroom, having very big platters as removable memory and no monitor at all, coding was done by just typing the binaries on a sheet of paper in front of me.
Well, we have gone a long way at a very high speed ever since. I am retired now and using my computer just for fun. For the time being I will be a reader on this forum, but when ever I feel I can contribute in some way I will do so.
Wishing you all the best for the year to come and happy hollydays.
Charles

Welcome to LQ Charles

I too saw teletypes in use (but never used them) and worked with an IBM that was a series of boxes (some taller than a man), around the room -- one for processor, memory and channel controllers; a string of disk storage boxes with removable disk packs (and a rack of offline disk packs); a communications box ("front end processor") for serial lines; a rack of "terminal controllers" for the screens and the small printers. When I left that job we had a huge 16 MB (yes, MB) of memory and 60 GB of storage to meet the needs of ~100 concurrent users, made possible by supplementing the memory with a "Solid State Storage Device" (looked like disk storage to the system) for cache. So SSDs are not new!

Best

Charles too

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