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Adam said:
So many children here pretending they know more than I do.
Get nearly 30 years experience with PCs like I have, then maybe your
opinions will be worth something.
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I started in '61. Makes you a frigging newbie.
Frank
 
In 62 I was a Freshman in High School. I did read Cordwinder Smith who
wrote about the AI computer that filled up an entire mountain. Does that
count for experience?
 
Adam said:
What PCs were around in 61?
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IBM had an 81.2-percent share of the computer market in 1961, the year
in which it introduced the 1400 Series. The 1401 mainframe, the first in
the series, replaced the vacuum tube with smaller, more reliable
transistors and used a magnetic core memory.
 
http://www.computerhope.com/history/196080.htm.
The only computer that I had during that era was a slide rule, which I
never did learn how to properly program. You had to move two sticks
together. I imagine you could start a fire with it, if you moved them
real fast. I also used my toes and fingers, which was actually the first
computing device, followed by paper and pencil. Our monitors were pretty
primitive. You were lucky if you could get dual channel and color was
expensive. Bill Gates was busy programming his sandbox. Even then he
was copying and cloning the sand castles made by Steve Jobs, whose first
words were "mama apple". I even knew Linus back then, I saw him every
day on the comic page. I hope that this information has helped you.
<wink, wink>
 
http://www.computerhope.com/history/196080.htm.
The only computer that I had during that era was a slide rule, which I
never did learn how to properly program. You had to move two sticks
together. I imagine you could start a fire with it, if you moved them
real fast. I also used my toes and fingers, which was actually the first
computing device, followed by paper and pencil. Our monitors were pretty
primitive. You were lucky if you could get dual channel and color was
expensive. Bill Gates was busy programming his sandbox. Even then he
was copying and cloning the sand castles made by Steve Jobs, whose first
words were "mama apple". I even knew Linus back then, I saw him every
day on the comic page. I hope that this information has helped you.
<wink, wink>
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Very useful, thanks.
 
Your welcome. If you need any more help, feel free to ask. I am a
virtual cornucopia of useless, but interesting information. Some people
have attributed my vast knowledge of inconsequential vapidity to the
brain concussion that I suffered in eighth grade, when a girl on the bus
hit me over the head with a stack of books. I immediately had a
revelation and began speaking in BASIC.
<wink,wink>
 
IBM had an 81.2-percent share of the computer market in 1961, the year
in which it introduced the 1400 Series. The 1401 mainframe, the first in
the series, replaced the vacuum tube with smaller, more reliable
transistors and used a magnetic core memory.
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PC = Personal computer. Understand yet?
 
Adam said:
What PCs were around in 61?
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None as far as I know. But there were plenty of computers around that
needed programing and/or repairing.
Experience that easily carries over to "PC's".
Frank
 
You too got hit over the head with a stack of books in eighth grade?
What a small world. I wonder if it was the same girl? It definitely
dampened my romantic interests, at least momentarily. The BASIC,
however, proved useful during other traumatic moments of my life.
<wink, wink>
 
None as far as I know. But there were plenty of computers around that
needed programing and/or repairing.
Experience that easily carries over to "PC's".
Frank
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Fifty yard penalty for moving the goal posts. <snicker>
 
Adam said:
Fifty yard penalty for moving the goal posts. <snicker>
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Permanent penalty for assuming (ass...) the goal post started when you
were born (hatched?).
Frank
 
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