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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 981311" data-attributes="member: 52972">bo, Those were far more advanced than anything I worked on early in my military career. :grin: Just to show you were I started in 1966...The Cobol language had just been adapted by the military in 1963 starting with the US Navy.  The IBM 1460 only had 16K of memory, the IBM 360's was one of the first multi-programable computers and only had between 64K to 256K of memory max.  They ran a DOS operating system with a Background, Foreground-1 and Foreground-2 partitions. so they could run 3 different programs simultaneously by interleaving their operations.  These computers took up an entire rooms as big or bigger than most houses.  Finally in about 1977 I finally worked on an IBM 370 with 1MB of Ampex Memory in a box about the size of a standard 25 cubic foot refrigerator.  The Univac-1005 I worked on in the late 1960's only had 4K of memory and used a language called SAAL (Single Address Assembly Language)Of course, things have changed a lot over the years.  I once heard it said that the micro processors in today's musical greeting cards have more computing power than existed on the planet in 1960.  I can't prove that the statement is true, but it has to be pretty close....Rich</blockquote>