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jen
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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 Posted - 2006-07-24 : 23:44:47
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http://www.ahajokes.com/true012.html --------------------keeping it simple... |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-25 : 01:45:16
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"Sept. 17, 1987IBM personal computer with a Princeton Graphics System monitor"First with the news again Jen?  |
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jen
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
4110 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-25 : 05:18:09
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yeah haven't heard of it, disadvantage of youth  --------------------keeping it simple... |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-25 : 06:05:50
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"disadvantage of youth"Never heard a vinyl record ...... never known a world without CDs, mobile phones, Garage music ...... "when I were a lad ..."  Kristen |
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elwoos
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
2052 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-26 : 03:41:46
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| CD's - Bah, tha's rich, we 'ad wind up record player with only one record and that were scratched |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
7020 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-26 : 06:40:22
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| IBM made personal computers?CODO ERGO SUM |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-26 : 07:50:50
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| Yeah, used a Cassette tape deck for mass-storage IIRC !! |
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jen
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
4110 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-26 : 09:30:42
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my workstations at work used to be IBMs, one with win2003 and other is Win2000 quote:
Originally posted by Michael Valentine Jones
IBM made personal computers?CODO ERGO SUM
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X002548
Not Just a Number
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-26 : 10:33:20
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| Tell me it wasn't you Brett?!! |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
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ajthepoolman
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
384 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-28 : 17:50:32
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| 87 I was in computer class on an Apple IIe. 8th grade.Hey, it compiles. |
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Kristen
Test
22859 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-29 : 04:22:38
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| In '78 my first computer was a ...... damn, giving away my age again!Kristen |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
7020 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-29 : 14:59:11
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| The good old days. I remember a computer without a built in boot program. You had to enter the boot routine directly into memory using dials(!) and buttons; no new-fangled keyboard for this one. It only took about 15 minutes to enter about 100 hex instructions from a sheet of paper and double check them before hitting RUN to get it to load the OS from reel-to-reel tape. If you didn’t get every instruction correct, you got to do it again.I often wanted to shoot that computer, and I wasn’t the only one. I came into work one day to find a gigantic dent in the side of the cabinet where someone had thrown a box full of paper at it out of frustration.CODO ERGO SUM |
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PSamsig
Constraint Violating Yak Guru
384 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-29 : 16:47:18
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| Sounds like the first computer I ever wrote a program on. A RC7000 (Danish brand) with a Data General Nova 1200 central unit. It had a front with lots of blinking lights and switches, it could, as you mention, be booted by these switches (not that we ever did). We didnt had access to the computer when I initially started the course, because it was having its ferrit core-memory replaced with a 'real' semicunducter memory. We wrote and and ran our programs on a TTY (TeleType terminal) and had them stored on punch tapes. Good ol' days Here is a little background history on the central unit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Novaand about Regnecentralen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnecentralen-- This one's tricky. You have to use calculus and imaginary numbers for this. You know, eleventeen, thirty-twelve and all those. |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
7020 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-29 : 18:33:24
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| The only operator controls on the computer I was talking about were:Power switch.Dials to set a hex value.Write-to-Memory button to write value to current memory address.Step button to advance to next address.Back button to move to prior address.Halt button to stop execution.Run button.LED display of current address.LED display of current address contents.It was a masterpiece of user interface design. The CPU chassis was about the size of a large kitchen appliance, and the brand was NCR. The only other IO devices were a tape drive and a printer in separate chassis.CODO ERGO SUM |
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JimL
SQL Slinging Yak Ranger
1537 Posts |
Posted - 2006-07-31 : 10:39:44
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| Ist computer was an IBM 1100 it had real iron ring core and a vacume tube proccessor.Input was keyPunch cards and dip switch selector. output was a modified electric typewriter.no storage only active memory. Boot up was 3 cases of cards to load the OS.JimUsers <> Logic |
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computer shot to death