/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/back-to-college-history-of-single-board-computersIn the dim past, computers were so large that they could take up a large amount of space and have their own cooling. Then in the &#39;70s, there was the minicomputer. This is an Interdata 70, in their later models they changed the color of the ...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/back-to-college-history-of-single-board-computersThu, 19 Sep 2019 13:20:48 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:6752263a-5e57-400c-aadf-eb777640de90colporteur0<p><span style="text-align:center;">Well they&#39;ll pass you by</span></p><p><span style="text-align:center;">Glory days in the wink of a young girl&#39;s eye</span></p><p><span style="text-align:center;">Glory days, glory days</span></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I entered the technology on the cusp of the industry switching from vacuum tubes to transistors. I got to experience both worlds. A 6800 hexi-decimal programmer was our introduction to computers in technology school.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The first company I worked for had a mainframe that was a PDP11/04 called blue and gold. It was the system for creating air-traffic display data from radar data.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Our SBC was DADS digital altimeter display system. It was a black metal box about a 4in(H)x4in(W)x12in(L). It weight 3/4lbs. It had three buttons on the front with a four, 8 segment displays to provide atmospheric pressure readings.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Glory days, glory days</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sean</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7802&AppID=300&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/nexgen-flight-simuator/posts/back-to-college-history-of-single-board-computersThu, 19 Sep 2019 01:04:32 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:6752263a-5e57-400c-aadf-eb777640de90clem570<p><span>[mention:753dd297e7584712840f1c3de8add506:e9ed411860ed4f2ba0265705b8793d05]</span> Reading this made my life flash by<span>[View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-6752263a-5e57-400c-aadf-eb777640de90/contentimage_5F00_938.png:16:16]</span>. No it really is amazing the changes so far. I wonder what the future holds in my waning years ahead. Thanks.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=7802&AppID=300&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">