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I didn't know that. Pretty interesting stuff.
Bill, the electronic stuff we worked on are museum pieces.Quote:
Originally Posted by IBNFSHN
Hell, we are museum pieces.:eek:
1960's high speed magnet memory disks. Ran by hydraulic motors. Weighed about 1000 pounds.
This came before DDR ram and floppys and HHDs and thumb drives and flash cards..
Memory lane.:):):):)
I was the first "pharmacy computer tech", probably in the whole USA (U of Ky Hospital Pharmacy, back in the mid 70's) :eek: :D
We had a hard drive/disc system that was similar to the one in your picture.
Now, with the more "updated" system that we're using, we do more ... faster than we could have even imagined, back then.
Problem is ... we have just as many glitches and problems with the new system, as we ever had with the first one :p
We're about a 400bed hospital ... currently building a 600bed hospital, right next to the current one. I can only imagine what kind of computer system we will have in the new hospital. Won't matter too much to me, though ... as I plan on being retired by the time Pharmacy gets moved in and running in the new one ;) ..... then I'll be a bonafied museum piece, myself !! LOL !!!
... cp :cool:
It really amazes me how far we have gone from the early 80's when I got my first one put on my desk at work. Now we drive down the highway, the wife is checking her email on the blackberry. If someone would have told me back in the 70's that I would be able to sit in the boat, take a picture of a just caught fish, and call it back to her, I would have laughed in their face and told them they had good drugs.
Dusty.
This stuff was the cats meow at NASA in the early 70's. Data General Novas network Eclipse. I can still program these suckers.;)
Just think, my cell phone is a 1000 more times powerful than this room full. Notice the mag tapes. From this spawn 8 tracks then cassettes.
It useta take "brains" to operate computers. Now pea brains and air heads use computers. I see them (cell phone) sticking in their ear all the time.:eek:
Thanks Gabowman for ringing my history bell.:)
2 rights in one post. Your gettin gooder Tom.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole
It almost seems as though there is an inverse relationship between the computational power of the human brain versus his technology.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cane Pole