[TUHS] Comments in early Unix systems

[Mike Markowski]

On 03/21/2018 07:50 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 07:17:11PM -0400, Arthur Krewat wrote:
>> I used to regularly compress sources of various distributions (not UNIX, but
>> inn, pine, elm, etc) that I compiled, just to save space.
>>
>> And that was in the early 90's when I could buy a 1GB SCSI drive for $1000.
>> I can't imagine working off of the early hard drives...
> 
> I was sys admin for a Masscomp with a 40MB disk and 20 users.  That
> was, um, "fun".

I remember Masscomp...  We used one (I forget model) in the field in the 
late 80s in the back of a tractor trailer.  We'd capture radar signals 
with it because it allowed data acquisition to not be swapped out.  It 
was a very expensive failure if, just as you started getting the short 
radar return, something like system logging swapped you out for a little!

Mike Markowski