nixen
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Re: Remind anyone of TV?
said by swsamurai  :
How many of us out there remember the good old BBS days? I have fond memories of firing up my 1200bps modem, and reading through all those messages, and downloading greyscale pictures!
Fmeh... 1200bps: Johnny Come Lately! 
Real fun was 300bps acoustic-coupler modems and all you had was ANSI art.
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swsamurai
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| Well, Yeah... I remember those... but I was trying not to date myself there, GrandPa!
Wanna really go back... first "Computer" I worked on used punch cards. You stack them in, write the program, then run them back through to execute the program... this causes more cards to be punched out, you then run those through to get the answer. It was sometimes quicker to pull out the old slide rule. HAHAHA! Now unless you have some stone tablets, I MIGHT have you beat. |
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nixen
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| said by swsamurai :
Wanna really go back... first "Computer" I worked on used punch cards. You stack them in, write the program, then run them back through to execute the program... this causes more cards to be punched out, you then run those through to get the answer. It was sometimes quicker to pull out the old slide rule. HAHAHA! Now unless you have some stone tablets, I MIGHT have you beat.
Nah. Oldest system I worked on was the teletype terminals in my school district's high school computer lab. Fortunately, I was in the accelerated learning program when I was using them. So, by the time I actually was in high school, they'd been replaced with Apple ]['s.
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swsamurai
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Actually, I am not as old as I make myself sound, I just feel that way. I was about 7 when I would play around with the machines at Taft College, where my Mother went to school, and would sit there and watch her work, then actually started working on them with her.
In High School, I worked on a CCC Mainframe system with about 60 terminals... we also had a smaller lab with a Commodore Pet, PC Jr., and a couple Ataris(computers).
My First home system was a Timex Sinclair 1000, with a tape drive. |
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nixen
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| said by swsamurai :
PC Jr., and a couple Ataris(computers).
My First home system was a Timex Sinclair 1000, with a tape drive.
Euw... Membrane keyboards.
-tom
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"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't."
"That's only 2 types of people, moron" |
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LegoPower77
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I believe I saw some of those at the Smithsonian the other month. |
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