Nah, probably about the same age. The TRS80 was my dad's. (He liked gadgets. :) ) I didn't see anything like a PDP-11 until I was a teaching assistant in grad school for a machine architecture course. (I learned PDP-11 assembly language in about 3 days so I could start correcting homework and work in the lab.) I did my thesis project, (a Fortran simulation of a fast Raleigh fading communications channel) using a Commodore 64 connected through a 300 baud modem to a CDC Cyber mainframe at the University. I was a EE major and didn't really start programming until I was out of school for a few years. I wanted to be a Radar engineer but that didn't work out.
And nah, I'm sure I'm not the oldest. Just reminiscing a bit about the old days. The only thing I feel like I missed out on was not getting the chance to work on a Lisp Machine... On May 6, 11:29 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Baldmountain, > I don't know if you are older from a more affluent background, or > actually younger. All through undergrad we used punch cards submitted > to the data center wrapped in rubber bands. The punch card machines > were hidden in stairwells around campus. Terminal time was too > expensive for our department... The National Labs were more > sophisticated – batch processing through modeling programs... but > surprisingly a summer job at a start up was even better. We were doing > a networked instrumentation system for nuclear power plants: > Instrumentation carts polled by PDP-11s reporting to redundant VAX > 11780s driving graphical displays that communicated state information > to the control room... I think about the same time an economics > teacher from high school was using a Tandy or TRS 80 to predict > football opponents' play calling tendencies based on game context: > down, distance, clock,... Anyway, I don't think you are the oldest. > > Ed > > On May 6, 9:12 am, baldmountain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The prizes are nice, but that is not what it's about. It's a new > > platform to explore that is not Windows. With the BeOS it was about a > > new OS designed using the latest software engineering techniques > > rather than as a mutation of an OS designed in the 70s for a 8 bit > > microprocessor. I love platforms. I love to learn about them and take > > them apart to figure out how all the pieces fit together. The best way > > to do this is to build something using the platform. I wasn't planning > > on submitting anything to the ADC but one thing lead to another and > > the app I started to explore Android turned into something usable so I > > submitted it. The same thing happened with the BeOS. > > > On May 6, 9:34 am, Incognito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Why don't you go mainstream rather then with an unknown operating > > > system? Only reason I'm with this new operating system is because of > > > the cash prices. Although, now that I look at it my chances are quite > > > slim if not nil.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
