StuckAgainSteve
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Blimey, you must be nearly as old as I am Leased lines in the banking system used to struggle at 1.2K baud in my day. My computer was 18 bit, had 32K of base memory and up to 8 further 32k banks, used to support up to 50 terminals with millisecond response times. All software written in octal notation long hand
I think you must be 5ish years before be in the game, I just missed the machines with <1MB main storage, 18 bit and 32K data banks? You must be a PDP or ICL man? I started on IBM 360/370 writing assembler (spoiled I know) on a 4381 with a whopping 4Mb main storage later upgraded to 8Mb. Then we ditched that for a 3090 (32MB central storage swoon!) mind you you wouldn't believe the number of users and applications we supported on that! We still had a few Dec VAX and PDP-11s knocking about which I tried to avoid if I could. The sea of IBM 3350 disk packs took up a quarter of a football pitch for a total site DASD capacity of about 3Gb!