Time for all the computer gurus to start rummaging ..........I know where my comics are.
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Do I Hear $1,000 for the Univac?
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Dennis Bassboss
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I have a very old computer..An ''Eagle'' It is the brand...was build in Sillicon Valley...Still works...but not much you can do with it...I wonder if anyone ever heard about this?Beaker said:The very first pc I used was an orginal ibm machine - can't remember the date
That machine was retired when the company bought 'newer' AT's
Looking back, I should have taken that machine - could be a museum piece now
Beaker
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Dennis Bassboss
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Just find it... Eagle computerI took that line from the page posted here....
''CBASIC was Digital Research's professional BASIC. It was a much better product that Microsoft's MBASIC, with a host of conditional toggles that a programmer would appreciate, but the rank amateurs doing most of the BASIC programming those days didn't even understand.''
I though it might make George smile...
''CBASIC was Digital Research's professional BASIC. It was a much better product that Microsoft's MBASIC, with a host of conditional toggles that a programmer would appreciate, but the rank amateurs doing most of the BASIC programming those days didn't even understand.''
I though it might make George smile...
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Beaker
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This is what we had in high school
http://ibm1130.org/
We used to ship our card decks to the university - once a week - we could get 2 runs if we planned it. George, I'm certain you worked with this dino at some point.
Imagine. That machine was introduced in 1965. Trust me, I wasn't in highschool in that year
Machines change much quicker now.
Moore's Law continues
http://ibm1130.org/
We used to ship our card decks to the university - once a week - we could get 2 runs if we planned it. George, I'm certain you worked with this dino at some point.
Imagine. That machine was introduced in 1965. Trust me, I wasn't in highschool in that year
Machines change much quicker now.
Moore's Law continues
Dennis Bassboss
Member
Just imagine that device in your house...Beaker said:This is what we had in high school
http://ibm1130.org/
We used to ship our card decks to the university - once a week - we could get 2 runs if we planned it. George, I'm certain you worked with this dino at some point.
Imagine. That machine was introduced in 1965. Trust me, I wasn't in highschool in that year
Machines change much quicker now.
Moore's Law continues
...nope, those guys were before my time... ...early on for me, I was stuck on Key Punch for a while... ...eventually, something called MUSIC replaced all that for students... ...also around that time MSS was the in thing at a major bank I had a workterm with... ...anyone have an idea what MUSIC or MSS were?...
nope, those guys were before my time... ...early on for me, I was stuck on Key Punch for a while... ...eventually, something called MUSIC replaced all that for students... ...also around that time MSS was the in thing at a major bank I had a workterm with... ...anyone have an idea what MUSIC or MSS were?...
Beaker said:This is what we had in high school
http://ibm1130.org/
We used to ship our card decks to the university - once a week - we could get 2 runs if we planned it. George, I'm certain you worked with this dino at some point.
Imagine. That machine was introduced in 1965. Trust me, I wasn't in highschool in that year
Machines change much quicker now.
Moore's Law continues
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Dennis Bassboss said:Just find it... Eagle computerI took that line from the page posted here....
''CBASIC was Digital Research's professional BASIC. It was a much better product that Microsoft's MBASIC, with a host of conditional toggles that a programmer would appreciate, but the rank amateurs doing most of the BASIC programming those days didn't even understand.''
I though it might make George smile...
My first computer was an Amstrad 9512 bought (OMG) on the Home Shopping Channel for $600. I think the reason most people bought them from HSC was the anonimity of the purchase. You didn't have to personally deal with a salesman who could see how stupid you were. The damn thing was so difficult to understand I almost packed in computers altogether....the language alone covered several hundred pages of manual.
The damn thing was so difficult to understand I almost packed in computers altogether....the language alone covered several hundred pages of manual.
johnph77
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1st PC I had was an Apple II, purchased in '79 - 48K RAM, with an additional 16K on a card that cost $350 - 9" Amdek monochrome monitor - dot-matrix printer - no hard drive, dual 130Kb disk drives - had ScreenWriter and VisiCalc - one sheet on VisiCalc was 64 columns x 256 rows - cost more than $2500 complete.
...the first one I bought was about 10 years ago when Windows 95 finally came out... ...both OS/2 and Windows 95 had to play nice and share... ...why did I go without one for more than a decade???... ...simple, many operating systems to play with a work...
...when I got my first PC at work, first impression was "many steps backwards"... ...many things they did with Windows is still the same story
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... ...why did I go without one for more than a decade???... ...simple, many operating systems to play with a work......when I got my first PC at work, first impression was "many steps backwards"... ...many things they did with Windows is still the same story
......there were lineups way down the hall for the card reader at school... ...the processor was an IBM 4361-5... ...you'd get a Priority 8 for the first run, a 5 for the second time for that day... ...some students managed to scam an extra JOB CARD to get an extra Prority 8... ...those were the days...
...then there was the dreaded "card reader ate one of my cards" ... ...ended up with a loss of Priority 8
... ...the computer operator would have to clear the card reader and run a $$ EOJ to flush the incomplete JOB, what a bummer...
...the smart ones would come back to school near the time of closing when the queue was emtpy... ...any priority would get you output real quick
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......then there was the dreaded "card reader ate one of my cards" ... ...ended up with a loss of Priority 8
... ...the computer operator would have to clear the card reader and run a $$ EOJ to flush the incomplete JOB, what a bummer......the smart ones would come back to school near the time of closing when the queue was emtpy... ...any priority would get you output real quick
...Beaker said:This is what we had in high school
http://ibm1130.org/
We used to ship our card decks to the university - once a week - we could get 2 runs if we planned it. George, I'm certain you worked with this dino at some point.
Imagine. That machine was introduced in 1965. Trust me, I wasn't in highschool in that year
Machines change much quicker now.
Moore's Law continues