Or the Loci or knotted string ... an early binary record keeping system perhaps.<div> <a href="http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3206">http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/46/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3206</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Regards Roland</div><div><br><div name="sig_ef468b11ff" style="margin:0pt"></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 July 2012 09:58, Laurie Savage <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">savage.john.l@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">The Abacus, you forgot the Abacus! And when we used notched
sticks!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Puts me in mind of the old Dilbert cartoon: “when I was young we
didn’t have 1’s or 0’s. We had to make do with o’s.”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Laurie Savage<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au" target="_blank">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark KELLY<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 12 July 2012 3:27 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List; Year 12 Software
Development Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Year 12 IT Apps] SSD replaces HDD for the Big Players<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">High Data Rollers like Google
and Dropbox are adopting the SSD in data centres...<br>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-centers/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/flash-data-centers/</a><br clear="all">
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But will Flash SSD drives be here for long? Maybe the memristor drive
will take over in 2 years...<br>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/" target="_blank">http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/</a><br>
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Golly. I still have a 5.25" floppy drive lying around - just in
case... it's a shame I don't have a compatible ISA slot to plug it in to
any more :-(<br>
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Greybeards - you may now begin your discussion...<br>
- I remember when I used audio cassettes to store programs on my TRS-80...<br>
- Pshaw, newbie! I had a punched card reader connected to my Altair 8080!<br>
- Begone, neophyte. When Alan Turing and I were replacing rotors in our
Bombe...<br>
- I remember the goode olde days when Herman Hollerith and I were playing Angry
Sparrows on his hand loom and we...<br>
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