Remember back then...........?

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Ok seems like we made it all the way back to the 60's with this.
Think I have seen photos of this thing before.
Used lights and push buttons for input.
Also think I read it was like one of the first "solid state" machines.

So how far back we going?
Anybody used a IBM 1620?
Or we going back to EINIAC?
And there was always your handy dandy K&E.

lol, oh well we have come a long way!
 
Pretty close. There were rows of lights which represented registers
depicted in binary form by whenther the light was on or off. It was built
up of rows and rows of transistors.
 
buzz Light said:
hehe
I don't think anyone can really appreciate DSL unless they used a
1200/2400 baud modem...whew!
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Speed freak. I was on the old 300bps acoustic couplers WAY back.
 
The first computer I actually owned (as opposed to the ones I used at
work) was an Amstrad PCW8256 running C/PM. Graphics and GUI aside,
there's very little I can do on my present P4 that I couldn't do on
the Amstrad. The supposed advances in computing over the intervening
20 years are almost entirely smoke and mirrors.
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Talking of work computers - my first was a Honeywell 400. The tapedrives
were taller than me and gave us a spot to grab a smoke. Smokes were 45
cents for a small pack and the cigarette machine was an easy mark. Yup,
almost 40 yrs ago.
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My 1st box was a 486DX33 w/ an unheard of 8MB of RAM
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My first was an apple 2c portable with a cpm, z80 add in card, bought
for me by a company that wanted me to write some code for them . The
z80.cpm ran turbo pascal. To do any real coding, I had to master the
overlay feature.

I managed to do ~$50k of consulting on it, and used it to buy the
beach house I'm sitting in now
 
I also had an Amstrad PCW8256. I don't think it was very good at receiving
streaming radio! And the colour was quite acceptable if you like green.

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Frank Bohan
¶ Love is blind but marriage is definitely an eye-opener.
 
I also had an Amstrad PCW8256. I don't think it was very good at receiving
streaming radio! And the colour was quite acceptable if you like green.
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Yeah, that's true. And it was hopeless for playing Unreal Tournament
2004.
 
I managed to do ~$50k of consulting on it, and used it to buy the
beach house I'm sitting in now
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hm, assuming you spend more time than between two meal on that and had
to pay for rent/bank/other things, how big is you beach house? ;->

best regards

Olaf
(who started on a C64 with 1541 floppy and upgraded it to Speedos to
get rid of the load "$",8,1 and could then could utilize the function
keys)
 
hm, assuming you spend more time than between two meal on that and had
to pay for rent/bank/other things, how big is you beach house? ;->
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in the begining, a shack with 500 ft^2
now its about 1500 ft^2


back then 50K was real money
 
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