[DUG] Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal for Dos free

[John Bird]

The times they have a-changed indeed.

My first computer experience was on a VAX 780.  2 MB Ram, 550 MB hard disk.  It ran most of the Lincoln University campus - some 60 screens, probably 200-300 user accounts, each with what seemed an enormous disk quota.  Phd students had huge data files stored on it. It ran big statistics programs - SAS, Minitab, SAAM.  (SAAM was some 5 million lines of Fortran for instance).  We would never have believed a single PC could have 1000  times as much memory and 1000 times as much disk space.  We would have said "how can data files ever get so big?"

Mind you I can still fit my entire 700 person address book in a 128KB memory organiser...

John
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