[BC] Re: Providing schematics

[SteveOrdinetz]

  Robert Orban wrote:

>This experience brings back memories of HP's superb build quality 
>back when it was still mainly a test and measurement instrument 
>company. Of course, it cost $395 in 1972 dollars, which is $1838 in 
>today's dollars.
>
>May the HP45 live for another 30 years!


What's scary is that you can get one today at the dollar store that 
will probably out-perform it.

I think back at the multi-rack mainframes I did tech support on in 
the 70s, with the Vermont Research drum that was the size of a 
washing machine and had a whopping 8 megs of capacity.  It was 
amazing what some of those programmers back then could do with a 
PDP-8 or 11 with 64K (or less) of RAM.  No bloatware in those days!