Michael Nelson wrote:
Heh... memories.
Before the www and Linux was around, I had been running FidoNet BBS
systems on DOS and OS/2. I got laid off from my job and decided I
wanted to learn something completely new (to me), so I decided to
install Unix. A friend had a set of Esix
Per Jessen wrote:
Michael Nelson wrote:
Heh... memories.
Before the www and Linux was around, I had been running FidoNet BBS
systems on DOS and OS/2. I got laid off from my job and decided I
wanted to learn something completely new (to me), so I decided to
install Unix. A friend had
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 13:55, James Knott wrote:
The oldest computer I worked on didn't even have a display. It was
a special purpose machine, made by Teleregister and installed at the
Toronto Stock Exchange in 1952. It used vacuum tubes, relays and a
memory drum. It was older than
Stevens wrote:
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 13:55, James Knott wrote:
The oldest computer I worked on didn't even have a display. It was
a special purpose machine, made by Teleregister and installed at the
Toronto Stock Exchange in 1952. It used vacuum tubes, relays and a
memory drum.
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:17:41PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
FWIW you got the easy end of the stick
Stick? We had sticks too! When I first started with computers there were
no computers, no keyboards, no monitors, no LEDs. We used the sticks to
scratch 1s and 0s in the dirt!
Dirt? You guys
Michael Nelson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:17:41PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
FWIW you got the easy end of the stick
Stick? We had sticks too! When I first started with computers there were
no computers, no keyboards, no monitors, no LEDs. We used the sticks to
scratch 1s
James Knott wrote:
Michael Nelson wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2006 at 08:17:41PM +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
FWIW you got the easy end of the stick
Stick? We had sticks too! When I first started with computers there were
no computers, no keyboards, no monitors, no LEDs.
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 14:26, James Knott wrote:
...
PS: I used to stay after work to play Dungeon on the company DEC
PDP11/70 on a character mode terminal. Maybe it wasn't called
Dungeon.. You are in a maze of twisty passages, all the same was
a key line where I frequently got
Hey, thanks for the reminder, I just found it in my 9.3, showing the
kids now.
Does anyone remember Lisa the analyst? That'll blow the kids minds!
Or was it Elsie...durn can't remember now!
Or the infamous Y-wing???
Tom in NM
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 15:09 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 23:33, Tom Patton wrote:
...
Does anyone remember Lisa the analyst? That'll blow the kids minds!
Or was it Elsie...durn can't remember now!
...
Try Emacs. It has the module that works like Elisa, but don't ask me exact
name, I still have no Emacs installed.
--
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 21:33, Tom Patton wrote:
Hey, thanks for the reminder, I just found it in my 9.3, showing the
kids now.
Does anyone remember Lisa the analyst? That'll blow the kids minds!
Or was it Elsie...durn can't remember now!
There are lots of Eliza implementations out
On Tuesday December 26 2006 2:55 pm, James Knott wrote:
FWIW you got the easy end of the stick - you should have started with me
on IBM, NCR and Burroughs mainframes in 1984. X? GUI? Mouse?
Nah, everything was 80x25. We moved up to 80x32 a couple of years
later. Now that was progress!
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 21:54 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 21:33, Tom Patton wrote:
There are lots of Eliza implementations out there. Here's an on-line
version: http://nlp-addiction.com/eliza/.
It was really a pretty stupid program.
Agreed...but good
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