David Barron writes:
> I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD).
You've got me beat by several years.
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I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD).
My first computer was the IBM 1620. The first desktop, or should I say, desk
(the whole thing). No OS. Used punched cards (OOO).
Had a crippled FORTRAN compiler, assembler, little else, but had a unique
variable word-length architecture and
On 6/19/2010 4:09 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/19/2010 03:35 AM, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 19. 06. 2010 06:32:04 je Gerald napisal(a):
Those were the days when men were men and systems were built by
men.!
Gerald
Yep. As opposed to the Internet Age, in which not only men are men, but
most of t
I wrote:
> I've got a pile of them upstairs. If I had an EPROM eraser (a
> programmer is easy to build) I'd use them instead of Atmel chips.
Nate Bargmann writes:
> Needham's Electronics used to offer them, assuming they're still in
> business.
Oh, I know I could _buy_ one. However, while I hav
* On 2010 19 Jun 07:10 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Miles Fidelman writes:
> > It continually amazes me that the [Z80 is] still in production and
> > widespread use.
>
> I've got a pile of them upstairs. If I had an EPROM eraser (a
> programmer is easy to build) I'd use them instead of Atmel chips
Miles Fidelman writes:
> It continually amazes me that the [Z80 is] still in production and
> widespread use.
I've got a pile of them upstairs. If I had an EPROM eraser (a
programmer is easy to build) I'd use them instead of Atmel chips.
> It could well be the most popular chip ever made for emb
I wrote:
> Go out and run a mile or so.
Andrew Sackville-West writes:
> that'll *really* make him feel old!
Odd. It has the opposite effect on me.
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On 06/19/2010 03:35 AM, Klistvud wrote:
Dne, 19. 06. 2010 06:32:04 je Gerald napisal(a):
Those were the days when men were men and systems were built by men.!
Gerald
Yep. As opposed to the Internet Age, in which not only men are men, but
most of the women are men as well, while little gir
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/19/2010 12:00 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model
Railroad
Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really
neat thing about the
Dne, 19. 06. 2010 06:32:04 je Gerald napisal(a):
Those were the days when men were men and systems were built by
men.!
Gerald
Yep. As opposed to the Internet Age, in which not only men are men, but
most of the women are men as well, while little girls are actually FBI
agents ...
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On 06/19/2010 12:00 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad
Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really
neat thing about the machine was that hack
On 06/18/2010 11:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives
from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a
Selectric printer with home
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Right after that, started hacking on MIT's PDP-1 (of Tech Model Railroad
Club and Spacewar fame, but at that point free-standing). The really
neat thing about the machine was that hackers were allowed, even
encouraged, to make HARD
On 06/18/2010 11:05 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
High school, Junior & Senior year (1969-71) - DG Nova, single user
configuration, had to toggle in a bootstrap loader, then read in a
2nd-stage off paper tape, final stage read in off of a hard drive (as I
remember, but hard drives were pretty rare in
On Saturday, June 19, 2010 02:08:03 pm Miles Fidelman wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
> > I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
> > seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives
> > from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a
John Hasler wrote:
I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives
from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, and a
Selectric printer with homebrew electronics. The first computer I
progra
High school, Junior & Senior year (1969-71) - DG Nova, single user
configuration, had to toggle in a bootstrap loader, then read in a
2nd-stage off paper tape, final stage read in off of a hard drive (as I
remember, but hard drives were pretty rare in those days, so I could be
wrong).
1st yea
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 06:18:27PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> ABS Doug writes:
> > I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to
> > TV... I'm feeling old.
>
> I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
> seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the he
On 6/18/2010 15:58, ABS Doug wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology pr
ABS Doug writes:
> I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to
> TV... I'm feeling old.
I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late
seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives
from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OC
On 06/18/2010 05:58 PM, ABS Doug wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrolog
> On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
>> built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
>> display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It
>> took hours to
On 06/18/2010 09:11 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Eric Gerlach put forth on 6/17/2010 1:46 PM:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
There was also a TI something back then.
TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users...
begrudgingly)
I had a /4A
Eric Gerlach put forth on 6/17/2010 1:46 PM:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>> There was also a TI something back then.
>
> TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users...
> begrudgingly)
I had a /4A but didn't bother mentioning it as I nev
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:15:37PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> There was also a TI something back then.
TI-99/4A represent! (I will also accept props from TI-99/4 users...
begrudgingly)
Cheers,
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Lisi wrote:
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology prog
On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory
> built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the
> display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It
> took hours to get th
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:03:52AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Chris Bannister wrote:
> >On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >>>Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
> On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/16/2010 06:09 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/15/2010 1:50 PM:
On 06/15/2010 01:37 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
[snip]
an USB enclosure and use it for backups. Having ~700GB of da
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