18 Dec
2007
18 Dec
'07
8:59 p.m.
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 23:39, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Ever hear of the IBM 1360 photostore?
No, except that I did see mention of that recently, in something I was
reading. (And was that you that pointed me at Gordon Bell's stuff?)
http://www.computerhistory.org/virtualvisiblestorage/artifact_frame.ph
p?tax_id=02.07.01.00
It was used a verb at Lawrence Livermore--as in "Your file has been
photostored." A very unfortunate happening...
Unfortunate as in it wasn't directly accessible then? I thought that the
point of such a setup was to keep a file accessible in digital form. Or is
that some sort of offline storage, like punched cards?
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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