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My first computer was a Commodore-64 in 1983. I ran a BBS system for the C-64 club in Phx, Az. NO Hard drive, just two C-64 floppy drives
Any old timers?
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New #32
Just a minor correction here:
Whatever you buy today is already obsolete because as a general rule, there are always several 'new and improved' models already designed and ready for production at any given moment - be it static, market based or competitor edge based roadmaps.
At the consumer level, being 'on top' lasts for about 5 mins. If you are lucky
Two floppy drives? Greedy bugger. I had one datasette...
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New #33
Interesting thread.
I took manufacturing processing in the mid 70's and to run a program on a milling machine we use to punch holes in a one inch wide tape for instructions for the machine.
Later, early 80's, I got into computer aided design and I learned that on a Euclid System.
I also have a copy of Windows 2.0 somewhere.
Dang, how time fly's by.
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Posts : 1,210 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (XP, 98SE, 95, 3.11, DOS 7.10 on VM) + Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid LynxNew #34
I can see that now
Lordbob: In my days we had things called Keyboards and Mice, and we ACTUALLY had to type things using that for the computer to understand.
Grandchild: WHAT !!!!
. You're kidding. (Thinking: type !!!)
Lordbob: Honest, we did that.
Nanoputer: (Processing thought input)... (mimicking C3P0) It must be true. It is there in my archives. A pretty primitive way if input, in my opinion.
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New #35
Another flashback just came to me.
People with dial-up think they have it bad today when they open their browser and have to wait for the modem to connect...
Do modems still use the Hayes methodology for getting commands from the computer?
I know I must have done it manually thousands of times before I got a fancy program that would deal with the dialing.... I would look at the printed list of bbs systems to get the number...
open the session
pause
Type: +++
pause
Type: ATDT5551212
Then wait for the connection. As I recall, I also had to add steps to set parity etc at some sites. There was no auto detection.
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New #36
strollin, did you work at the IBM Santa Therisa plant in SJ? I was i Bldg. 26 in the early 70's.
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New #37
My 1st real computer was a Tandy 1000 SX similar to the one in the pic below.
It had the 640k upgrade, a 720 & 5.25 floppy, and a 30 meg card drive. Cga Monitor and -- Tandy Deskmate II software.
Fair mention goes to the 9-pin noisy dot matrix printer, that I still have - somewhere.
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New #38
State of the art
Mine was a wooden frame with multiple wires threaded thru small wooden balls. You could place them any where you wished. Very low power. This was about the time someone came up with dirt and we had to start cleaning everything.
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New #39
Ah, CGA.
I knew several people that refused to go to CGA because they didn't want to give up the resolution of their Hercules (or similar) monochrome cards.
The real geeks had monochrome, but with amber monitors instead of green.
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New #40
Bldg 26 was at the main SJ plant which is where I worked. Santa Teresa Lab (now called Silicon Valley Lab) is a programming lab about 5 miles south of what used to be the main SJ plant. The main plant was sold to Hitachi a number of years ago and I'd estimate two-thirds of the buildings have been torn down (including bldg 26).
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