26TB Seagate External Drive $249.99 Walmart

[techtoys]

I have not posted here in a few years. But I got a laugh out of the

How **cking old are you?

I learned to program on Fortran with punchcards and seen a chunk of history including storage.
I taped out my first chip on 1.5u in 1987

I can see the building that housed ex-IBM engineers that wrote drive firmware under the new HGST banner from my bedroom.
I used to drive my daughter to gymnastics past streets with names like Poughkeepsie and explain the reference.
Yes ... it is close to "hard drive" area.

I recently finished 30 years at my company and have been working for 39 years. I am maxed out on Social Security with 35 years of maximum contributions.


On Monday, I plan to discuss the best timeline for retirement with my boss.
.... yeah ... I feel old.

 

[techtoys]

For those of use that use punch cards
Someone please explain how backspace worked on the keyboard.

For you younger types. How could we press backspace ..go back .. and "edit" what we had already punched into the card.

 

[Samir]

I have not posted here in a few years. But I got a laugh out of the


I learned to program on Fortran with punchcards and seen a chunk of history including storage.
I taped out my first chip on 1.5u in 1987

I can see the building that housed ex-IBM engineers that wrote drive firmware under the new HGST banner from my bedroom.
I used to drive my daughter to gymnastics past streets with names like Poughkeepsie and explain the reference.
Yes ... it is close to "hard drive" area.

I recently finished 30 years at my company and have been working for 39 years. I am maxed out on Social Security with 35 years of maximum contributions.


On Monday, I plan to discuss the best timeline for retirement with my boss.
.... yeah ... I feel old.

You must have built some cool stuff that's 'part of the furniture here'.

For those of use that use punch cards
Someone please explain how backspace worked on the keyboard.

For you younger types. How could we press backspace ..go back .. and "edit" what we had already punched into the card.

That's the one thing that made punch cards and type writers very 'purposeful' when you used them--there was no 'do over' aside from 'doing it over', lol. And it's to capture this element of purposefulness that people actually do collect typewriters--one of them the world famous actor Tom Hanks.

 

[is39]

For those of use that use punch cards
Someone please explain how backspace worked on the keyboard.

For you younger types. How could we press backspace ..go back .. and "edit" what we had already punched into the card.

I remember good fancy punch had a line buffer, which you could backspace over, then punch whole line (and it would also print it on top of the card).
Cheap punches did not print anything and punched each character as you entered. Then you'd run a print job to see if there were any mistakes.
You could also YOLO and run the job without checking; but PL1LFCLG compiler could spit out reams of paper with errors from a few of pages of input with mistakes. Optimizing compiler was better (or may be it had better defaults, like stop on first X mistakes or after generating Y pages of output).

Fun...

--igor

 

[techtoys]

I remember good fancy punch had a line buffer, which you could backspace over, then punch whole line

Yes. And it would mechanically route the bad card to a discard pile.
I learned to make sure the card deck was secured with 2 elastic bands.
Then I would walk from my dorm to the computer building to have the cards read.
We could print out the cards to paper and check our program to correct any mistakes.
Once we were sure the program was good, we ran the program by using an "execute" card in the deck.
We got 2 execute cards per assignment. Extra cards were 50 cents in the bookstore.

I did manage to avoid PL1 since I was not CS.

 

[Magnet]

I am not excited about these large drives. It is a pain to get the data out of them since they are still limited by the same interface speed. Unless they improve the read speeds and by design they cannot, I think I will stick to my 14TB drives; I think it is not an upgrade to get a 26TB drive to replace a 14TB. What do you think?

That just sounds like cope.

Monster drives are great for reasonable setups where you can't have a hundred disks. I use a HL15 and I won't be getting a physically larger NAS anytime soon. When I need more storage space, its bigger spinning drives. I don't need the speed and most of the big data I keep is replaceable, given some time.