Quote Originally Posted by jimbo View Post
We are showing our age, hj! I worked on inertial navigation on submarines as early as the 60's. The system which could keep track of our postion inertially for up to 60 days with little outside input, had a program loaded on about 30' of punched paper tape, and the system hard drive was the size of a toaster, and was 8K!
If Bill Gates and crew had gotten their hands on that system it would have needed at least 2 gigs of memory to work...