Office Cleanup

Because of a fit of neatness on my part the items shown were removed from the closet shelf in the office. These boxes and the included PC software are obsolete and slated for discard. In a way they tell one chapter of a story of evolution in the technology world. They have been superseded by OS X.

My interest in computers began in 1955 with undergraduate job in the College Computing Center. It paid $1.00 per hour, highest paying job on campus. The task was "Checking the Computer", an IBM 650 which had 4 K of rotating drum
Memory. I/O was punched cards and the machine cost over a million dollars.

We were given a spreadsheet with Columns A & B filled in along with a 100 key Marchant desk calculator. We were to calculate Column C as A x B, then Column D as some function of C, etc., etc. The total project was to calculate statistical tables to a few extra decimal places. In our spare time we learned about the functions of the CPU, Memory, and Storage.

Thus began the journey. Now, the boxes before us are a part of History.