Losing Intrest in this site

But, the practice does not break any rules, and threads are not moved or deleted. They are not well-accepted by many members, however.
 
Man I don't know where this going. This thread has gone in directions I would have never guessed. I was just venting a little because I lost out onsomething and was blaming the speed of the site. But this is going strange places. I think maybe I should clear the slate and sart again. John K
 
I recall the hard drives with five (?) platters that needed to be loaded into machines like washing machines and probably held 5kB or so of data.

Paper tape, punched cards... Don't get me started.

One of my first jobs was booting the computer by turning a long row of switches on or off, twenty or fifty switches or something, and then turning on the power.

The computer was the size of a small car, and the printer was almost as big. The power supply cable was as thick as my arm. Well almost.
 
Jon Claremont said:
I'm off to find a photo of Arnie to use as my new avatar.

Then the mods won't mess with my posts.

I'll be back.
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Here are two, Jon.
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R.J.
 
The "Big" computer that I started out on fit in a warehouse, had three water-chillers to cool it, used 28" disk platters, and cost $8Million.

It had 4MBytes of memory and a 12.5Mhz clock.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
The "Big" computer that I started out on fit in a warehouse, had three water-chillers to cool it, used 28" disk platters, and cost $8Million.

It had 4MBytes of memory and a 12.5Mhz clock.
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Wow! What was it used for and how much scrap* value is in something like that?

* Gold pins etc.

R.J.
 
Jon Claremont said:
I'm off to find a photo of Arnie to use as my new avatar.

Then the mods won't mess with my posts.

I'll be back.
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i am a large italian who grew up on the streets of new york.
arnie comes to us when he needs back up!
 
So, when do we get to the part of the thread where we talk about wine and invading England? :confused:
 
You and me are coming from the same place Brian. My very first (Eliot 903) didn't have a keyboard or a display. It used punched paper tape for input and output with a one week turnaround. So if you put a '.' in the wrong place you got an error message Tuesday, and could resubmit your work for output next Tuesday.

RJ: Lucky if a museum, will take it off your hands.
 
copake_ham said:
So, when do we get to the part of the thread where we talk about wine and invading England? :confused:
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Hey... great idea... let's have a glass of wine and invade England. Where's our Scottish Lassie?
 
Losing Interest in this Site...

Losing Interest in this Site...

Serenity Prayer:

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
--Reinhold Niebuhr
 
Jon Claremont said:
You and me are coming from the same place Brian. My very first (Eliot 903) didn't have a keyboard or a display. It used punched paper tape for input and output with a one week turnaround. So if you put a '.' in the wrong place you got an error message Tuesday, and could resubmit your work for output next Tuesday.

RJ: Lucky if a museum, will take it off your hands.
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/* BrianSweeny should feel *so* understood!
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copake_ham said:
So, when do we get to the part of the thread where we talk about wine and invading England? :confused:
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Indeed, with fine red-haired, blue-painted lassies even :D
 
Brian Sweeney said:
You guys keep it nice or I'm going to start telling my old "digital imaging in the 1980's" stories on this thread too! Got it moved right over the the "something different" forum, just like that!

Yup, back in the old days we used Magnetic Tape that weighed 20 pounds a Reel and was 1inch wide! Only held 11 GBytes!!! Yep, Sangamo Weston T80 28-track tape.

And the computer that we lifted onto the P3 Orion weighed 200Pounds! Programmers weren't little weenies in those days...
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I've bet you've had your hands on an AN\UYK-7. Binary Coded Hexidecimal ain't for whimps.
 
Brian Sweeney said:
You guys keep it nice or I'm going to start telling my old "digital imaging in the 1980's" stories on this thread too! Got it moved right over the the "something different" forum, just like that!

Yup, back in the old days we used Magnetic Tape that weighed 20 pounds a Reel and was 1inch wide! Only held 11 GBytes!!! Yep, Sangamo Weston T80 28-track tape.

And the computer that we lifted onto the P3 Orion weighed 200Pounds! Programmers weren't little weenies in those days...
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11GBytes? you were lucky we only got around 200-700 Mbytes at about 6250 cpi depending on the blocking. That's why we moved to the Winchesters.
 
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