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| From | J Burns <burns@nospam.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.system |
| Subject | Re: Way Back When |
| Date | 2018-11-04 12:55 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <prnbrb$e9i$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (3 earlier) <1nxpk6i.2bks7wnts0fN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <chine.bleu-1E423B.15290503112018@reader.eternal-september.org> <1nxporg.1nc5fh8194xy3kN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <chine.bleu-74B0DB.18153303112018@reader.eternal-september.org> <1nxqg86.157h88f13ebth1N%snipeco.2@gmail.com> |
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On 11/4/18 3:47 AM, Sn!pe wrote: > Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> wrote: > > [...] > >>>>>>> I remember when computers required chillers >>>>>>> bigger than the computers. >>>>>> >>>>>> And sat on raised floors, with lots of cables underneath. >>>>> >>>>> Ours had big motor-generator sets in the plant room to convert >>>>> our local 230v 50Hz mains electricity to 110v 60Hz. We had >>>>> false floors too, and the whole 'puter room was air-contioned. >>>>> The best bit though was we wore white lab-coats and had -real- >>>>> Tektronix oscilloscopes on trollies. ~1970. >>>> >>>> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102627699 >>>> >>>> Other than X.DIS, I prefer my MacBook. >>> >>> <http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/169/682> >>> >>> I loved my 315s. >> >> I do not miss the O26s. > > You had to be a hardware person to really appreciate them. > Software was a nuisance that concerned only programmers > and they were nuisances by definition. > You said it! They put me on one of these in 1969: <https://www.flickr.com/photos/wrwetzel/2195723152/in/album-72157603719879992/> IIRC, my console was bigger, and most of the computer was in cabinets along the wall. I hated the computer in Star Trek, and I hated this one worse. I asked a fellow how it worked. He used a lot of big words, and I could see he was talking through his hat. I asked another fellow, and he explained it in three minutes. He told me about the registers and commands. He told me it used a numbering system based on powers of ten. I was in luck. I'd studied that system in first grade. The machine was more trouble than it was worth. You'd start by loading the FORTRAN compiler, on two stacks of Hollerith cards. Soon I hated the programmers more than I hated the computer. Now that I knew how it worked, I decided to fix it. I printed the compiler. It came out as a column of digits 15" wide and 192" long. From it, I found where the trouble spots resided in memory. I made changes and had the computer print a new stack of Hollerith cards. With the improved compiler, I could put my feet up and spend the day reading the New York Times. It cost 10ยข. I think the daily issue had 100 pages. In 1974, they gave me two of these minis: https://gizmodo.com/5393663/the-computer-that-made-the-internet Thanks to integrated circuits, each was hardly bigger than a refrigerator. Right off the bat, I detected a bug. For four days, I hunted it nearly around the clock. Too illiterate to know when a computer worked and when it didn't, the users thought I was tilting at windmills like Don Quixote. I finally caught it in a trap. It was a nand gate with an ambiguous output level.
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Way Back When Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2018-11-02 11:21 -0400
Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-02 09:06 -0700
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-03 21:00 +0000
Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-03 21:17 +0000
Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-03 15:29 -0700
Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-03 22:55 +0000
Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-03 18:15 -0700
Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-04 08:47 +0000
Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-04 12:55 -0500
[OT] Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-05 08:12 +0000
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-05 01:45 -0800
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-05 13:42 +0000
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-05 07:31 -0800
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-05 17:47 +0000
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-05 12:14 -0800
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-05 20:46 +0000
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-03 09:28 +1300
Re: Way Back When Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2018-11-02 18:35 -0400
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-03 21:06 +0000
Re: Way Back When nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-03 17:41 -0400
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-05 03:13 +0000
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-05 18:13 +1300
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-05 19:07 +0000
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-06 08:42 +1300
Re: Way Back When Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-05 11:47 -0800
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-06 09:18 +1300
Re: Way Back When Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-05 12:37 -0800
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-06 15:15 +1300
Re: Way Back When Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-05 21:12 -0800
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-06 18:13 +1300
Re: Way Back When Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2018-11-05 21:26 -0800
Re: Way Back When John <nospam@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 18:47 -0800
Re: Way Back When Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-06 10:16 +0000
Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-06 08:12 -0500
Re: Way Back When nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 15:44 -0400
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-06 14:57 +0000
[OT] Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-06 15:10 +0000
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-07 16:27 -0500
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-08 14:15 +1300
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2018-11-07 18:16 -0800
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-07 22:52 -0500
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-07 21:22 -0800
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-08 18:28 +1300
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-08 00:33 -0400
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-08 02:48 -0500
Re: [OT] Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-08 18:26 +1300
Re: Way Back When Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-11-07 08:41 -0800
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-07 18:38 +0000
Re: Way Back When Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2018-11-07 15:41 -0800
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-08 10:26 +1300
Re: Way Back When snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2018-11-07 22:10 +0000
Re: Way Back When Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-08 07:06 +0000
Re: Way Back When Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2018-11-09 19:13 -0500
Re: Way Back When nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-11-05 14:55 -0400
Re: Way Back When Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2018-11-05 15:48 -0800
Re: Way Back When Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-06 10:14 +0000
Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-06 08:22 -0500
Re: Way Back When Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-11-06 07:02 -0800
Re: Way Back When Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2018-11-06 13:54 -0500
Re: Way Back When Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-11-07 09:26 +0000
Re: Way Back When Elden <usenet@moondog.org> - 2018-11-07 05:34 -0800
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-06 15:41 +0000
Re: Way Back When Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2018-11-04 14:28 +1300
Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-04 14:01 -0500
Re: Way Back When Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-11-04 17:00 -0500
Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 08:44 -0500
Re: Way Back When Supermarine Spitfire <spitfire@spitfireflyinghigh.com> - 2018-11-02 20:32 +0000
Re: Way Back When Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2018-11-04 16:55 -0500
Re: Way Back When J Burns <burns@nospam.com> - 2018-11-05 09:18 -0500
Re: Way Back When Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-05 07:33 -0800
Re: Way Back When "John Varela" <newlamps@verizon.net> - 2018-11-05 19:41 +0000
Re: Way Back When Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2018-11-06 15:44 -0500
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