remembering the early days 2005-06-09 - By Doug Schafer
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Since we started a small discussion on the old stuff...
Carrara had no chance on the early computers I used...
At work our mainframe Engineering computer had 4K of RAM (yup that's right
4K) and I made and sorted punch cards; no monitors, only line printer
printouts and lights. Coded programs in FORTRAN or machine language...about
1964. By 1970 50mb hard disks for graphics apps were the size of a clothes
washer, weighed the same, and required air conditioning....run from a
central mainframe.
My first real computer at home was years later...an HP 100: had touch
screen, B&W, 8K RAM, no hard drive, dual 5.25 floppies (cost about $1500
just for the dual drives)...kept program on one disk and data on other disk.
Dot matrix printer and I converted a daisy wheel typewriter to print text.
IBM PC was not invented yet. Had an Amiga too but don't even remember much
about it anymore except program input was a tape drive and output was to a
B&W TV....graphics were BASIC, program your own 2D straight lines and
motion. "Pong" like.
The big move up was to a 386DX2, win3.1, hard disk, color, and GUI.
Feeling pretty modern today with XP, dual monitors, 2GB, P4 3.2, 256mb
video....but expect in 5 years this will seem primitive again.
I prefer the color and dynamics/speed/real-time of today....as available in
Carrara and Hex.
Doug.S
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