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Don Watkins 
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 Topic: Ancient computingPosted: 20 Feb 2012 at 11:15am |
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If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today Sweet! One company is using a computer from 1948. |
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Randy
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Posted: 22 Feb 2012 at 8:07pm |
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That's a fun read. (I wince a bit thinking of my Fortran punch card days.)
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 5:15am |
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Some people can really wring everything out of a box. I worked at a company that had a 402 but I never used it (nor do I think they did). It looked really complicated.
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Randy
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 9:39am |
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Reminds me of this old pin plotter in a design office I worked in years ago. They made us get it working because it was a "resource" we were not using. The guy that set it up was able to get it to draw a large circle, a triangle and a square in 3 different colors and line weights on a plan sheet before they replaced the regular plotter we were using. Funny thing is we never printed plan sheets in color.
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Karl_db
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Posted: 23 Feb 2012 at 10:25am |
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That sounds typical.
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012 at 9:45am |
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Absolutely rolling on the floor funny (at least to me): When computers were sexy: Hilarious vintage ads from the early days of the PC I remember some of those. |
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Karl_db
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012 at 11:48am |
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W0w...300Mbytes (disk storage system) for under $20k...and 30 days delivery!!
I think I've seen Elvira before...but not when it came out. |
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Don Watkins
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012 at 12:20pm |
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I think my first 10Mb was around $7k. Fortunately I had a client and they bought it for me. It was funky, funky, funky. I think it was before DOS 2.0 but regardless DOS couldn't handle the full 10Mb so I had to carve it up into multiple chunks and then use a "mount" program to load a particular partition. Still it seemed like a load of storage. |
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Randy
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Posted: 01 Apr 2012 at 8:05pm |
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LOL! Didn't know who he was at the time but I remember that Radio Shack add with Isaac Asimov.
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