Hi Folks, some of you in here who can remember further back than the 1990s
might be interested in my hobby page here:
http://www.orthogonal.com.au/computers/history/
Cheers,
Greg K
Nice! Very good read. I too was doing MVS and OS 370 Assembler and JCL in
1987 but at IBM.
PL/AS anyone?
On 14 July 2013 20:08, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote:
Hi Folks, some of you in here who can remember further back than the 1990s
might be interested in my hobby page here:
You lived in luxury !! - I had to endure Chambers 7 figure log tables and my
first PC had no hard disk only two 360k floppies. I later upgraded and added
the biggest hard drive available at the time 10Mb !!
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You lived in luxury !! - I had to endure Chambers 7 figure log tables
Holey schmoley, I never knew that 7 figure tables existed. I ran a search
and came up with a picture here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chambers-Seven-Figure-Mathematical-Tables-Trigonometrical/dp/B00200WFG0
It's not just a
Pro network cabling job in the 'current' picture. Is that so the wireless
works better? :)
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Greg, we seem to be of the same vintage - Class of 74. Fresh publications of
'Chambers 7 figure log tables' could still be purchased in 1975 when, along
with a slide rule, I was required to have them for first year engineering.
Log Tables / Slide Rule, same principle - who'd have thought you
Pro network cabling job in the 'current' picture. Is that so the wireless
works better? :)
I find if I hang the modem and switch up on the wall then I get better
bandwidth because they're closer to the satellite -- Greg
As my daughter says back in my day
Not quite your collective vintages, but I remember Dad having to leave the
football (avid Carlton supporter and member) to go to Richmond to solve a
problem for Venture stores, who had a large room containing their punch
card computer. That was when I was 5 ish.
My first owned computer (apart from programmable HP calculators) was an
Exidy Sorcerer Z80 with 48K of RAM - we expanded it to 56K. It had a word
processor cartridge plug-in that was (like all these cartridges, including
BASIC) 8K. The only original physical storage was a 'stringy floppy'. Later,
Anyone bought from www.affordablelaptops.com.au before?
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Tom Rutter therut...@gmail.com wrote:
My notebook of almost 7 years has died a tragic death. RIP.
What's the go on notebooks these days? I used to just go straight to Dell
and choose something but haven't
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