----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:50 PM Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
> > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Horn, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:18 PM > > To: Killer Bs Discussion > > Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles) > > > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > If we wanted to listen to a whole album, we had to STAND UP > > > AND TURN IT OVER on the record player - we didn't have the > > > MP3 or the CD. We used VINYL. > > > > Heck! We had to stand up to change the channel on the *TV*! > > And only had 10 channels to boot. 11 if you counted that one > > from Philly that only came in once in a long while... > > Has it been that long since you had to snip a bit out of a 5.25 " floppy to > use both sides... That is for those luck enough to have a floppy disk... > everyone else had to use a cassette recorder to load a program... > And what about sound? A program rocked if it beeped... And if it actually > played a MIDI tune... Well that was cool! > > Nerd From Hell
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest computer everyone here has worked on?
Either an IBM 1130 (not the basic model: this one had 8K of 16-bit word core memory!) or an low-end PDP-8: I never checked the date of manufacture of either, so I don't know which was older . . .
//* I. B. M. / U. B. M. / We all B. M. / For I. B. M. Maru
-- Ronn! :)
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