Doug Pensinger wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Do you remember the math
On Friday, Oct 10, 2003, at 19:24 America/New_York, Horn, John wrote:
From: John Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We had 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 VHF channels and 25, 31, 41, and
47 UHF. I
was my father's remote control, and 'rabbit ears' supplement
(he swore reception was better when I touched the
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 20:18:24 -0500, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
How many here ever used a slide rule?
Define use. Chewing on it for teething purposes count? :) If so, I
was using one before I was 18 months old, maybe even before I was a year
old.
I *have*
At 08:18 PM 10/11/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see
Doug Pensinger wrote:
Do you remember the math machines - kind of mechanical computers - that
they used to have. If I recall correctly, you would type in a number
pull a lever, type in an operation and another number and pull the lever
and it would calculate the answer. My Dad used to take
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:21 PM 10/7/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Heh. When we had close to 20 channels, we got *3* PBS stations! :)
I used to love seeing the nightly sign-off for Channel 44 (Springfield,
MA?) if I was up that late. It used nice music.
You mean they didn't
Reggie Bautista wrote:
Adam wrote:
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.
Unless of course you had an 8-track player...
We had one. In the car. And only 3 8-track tapes.
* Dan Minette [Tue, 07/10/2003 at 17:02 -0500]
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Nothing exceptionnal in
From: Dan Minette [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is
the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which
I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might
beat me. :-)
Let's see... In 1978,
From: John Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We had 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 VHF channels and 25, 31, 41, and
47 UHF. I
was my father's remote control, and 'rabbit ears' supplement
(he swore reception was better when I touched the antenna).
Clearly, you lived in the same house I grew up in.
From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:24:33 -0500
From: John Garcia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
We had 2, 4, 5, 7
At 10:37 PM 10/8/03 -0400, John Garcia wrote:
Does anyone else remember making pictures on greenbar paper of ships,
Well, once for some obscure reason¹ we had a drawing in the math department
where the advertised prize was a 100-foot yacht. The 100-foot yacht
turned out to be a stack of said
William T Goodall wrote:
My first personal computer was a Sinclair Spectrum in 1982
Me too.
I wonder if there are any Sinclair emulators this millenium :-)
Alberto Monteiro
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Alberto Monteiro and William T Goodall converse:
My first personal computer was a Sinclair Spectrum in 1982
Me too.
I wonder if there are any Sinclair emulators this millenium :-)
Alberto Monteiro
Mine was an Apple II+ with two (countem') floppy drives, a
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game
here. What is the oldest computer everyone here
has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see
who might beat me. :-)
Hmm...that would probably be the Commodore 64.
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Anyone Here Old Enough To Remember When There Was Actually A Channel
1? Maru
Australia NEVER had a Channel 1. It was reserved by the US Govt at about
the same time as our rollout, so we got 5A instead.
(as in the channels were 0 2 3 4 5 5A 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13)
At the
At 09:07 AM 10/8/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
In 1969
From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the
oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've
mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me.
:-)
I had an Apple II with serial
At 11:54 PM 10/7/03 -0700, d.brin wrote:
At 09:07 AM 10/8/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 23:52:18 -0500
At 10:15 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10
d.brin wrote:
In 1969 I carted huge spools of mag tape to load onto an IBM 360-75
for a radio astronomer at Caltech. I was hyp-mo-tized by a cal comp
plotter that actually pen-drew. graphs!
I've always wanted to ask... You worked at Hughes, didn't you? Anything
related to their
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From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
d.brin wrote:
In 1969 I carted huge spools of mag tape to load onto an IBM 360-75
for a radio astronomer at Caltech. I was hyp-mo-tized by a cal comp
plotter that actually pen-drew. graphs!
I've always wanted to ask... You worked at Hughes, didn't you? Anything
related to their satellite
On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 12:07 am, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the
oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've
mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might
At 02:56 PM 10/8/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
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From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
At 10:01 AM 10/8/03 -0500
Adam wrote:
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.
Unless of course you had an 8-track player...
Reggie Bautista
_
Reggie Bautista wrote:
By the way, the place where she got the piercing is a piercing and tattoo
parlor that has a bumper sticker which says, Born Ugly? We Can Help!
followed by name and the addresses of their two locations.
Interesting marketing tactic - almost makes you feel that by going
On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 18:02 America/New_York, Dan Minette wrote:
snippage
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've
mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me.
On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 00:52 America/New_York, Ronn!Blankenship
wrote:
We could get four and two were PBS (run by the same statewide system,
so the content was identical).
But after all, how many numbers are there between 2 and 13?
Anyone Here Old Enough To Remember When There Was
On Wednesday, Oct 8, 2003, at 22:13 America/New_York, John Garcia wrote:
On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 18:02 America/New_York, Dan Minette wrote:
snippage
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the
oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've
Jan Coffey wrote:
--- d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
bloody amateurs. think they invented alienation. Sheesh.
Alienation? who said anything about alienation? Is that really the way GenX
X- and Y looks to you? Do you really think that they feel alienated? If you
do, then your
Calvin: ~sighs~ What's the point? GONA BE A PUNK ROCKER!
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movement started roaring in the late
70's. Any punk rocker who remembers when it started is a minimum age of 30
and closer to 40 (I'm 35.. A regular X-Gen Patriarch). Back in my 'day' we
used safety
Chad wrote:
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movementstarted roaring in the late
70's. Any punk rockerwho remembers when it started is a minimum age of 30 and
closer to 40 (I'm 35.. A regular X-Gen Patriarch). Back in my 'day' we
used safety pins to do body
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
Horn, John wrote:
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
-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
Chad wrote:
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movement started roaring in the late
70's. Any punk rocker who remembers when it started is a minimum age of 30
and closer to 40 (I'm 35.. A regular X-Gen Patriarch). Back in my 'day' we
used safety pins to do body piercings, unlike the youth of
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From: Horn, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 3:18 PM
Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If we wanted to listen
Chad asked:
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
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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
- Original Message -
From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:55 AM
Subject: RE: Brin: rejuveniles
Calvin: ~sighs~ What's the point? GONA BE A PUNK ROCKER!
Let me remind everyone that the Punk Movement
Nerd From Hell
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is
the oldest computer everyone here has worked on? I think
mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might
beat me. :-)
I'll take that challenge (sort of, although I know
Dan wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Oldest worked on or oldest owned? The oldest one I (or my family)
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
I had an Apple II with serial number in 5 digits. Used integer basic
and a
In a message dated 10/7/2003 2:55:11 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:02:47 -0500
- Original Message -
From: Chad Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Depends on a few definitions. I worked on an IBM system in
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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
Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Oldest I've owned is a Commodore-64. My
At 01:50 PM 10/7/03 -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
And what about sound? A program rocked if it beeped...
And now every bloody thing in the world beeps, buzzes, chirps, queeps, or
plays annoying tinny music . . . unless it is blaring [EMAIL PROTECTED] spam at you.
When I was your age . . . it was
At 05:02 PM 10/7/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
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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
At 06:55 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:02:47 -0500
- Original
At 09:07 AM 10/8/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Depends on
At 10:15 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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!
At 10:21 PM 10/7/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Kevin Tarr wrote:
At 03:18 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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
Dan Minette wrote:
OK, since we're playing the oldest stuff game here. What is the oldest
computer everyone here has worked on? I think mine (which I've mentioned
before) is the oldest, but I'd be curious to see who might beat me. :-)
Do you remember the math machines - kind of mechanical
I wonder how this relates to neoteny:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/02/2003066235
From childless fans of kiddie music to the grown-up readers of Harry
Potter, inner children are having fun all over. Whether they are buying
cars marketed to consumers half their age,
I wonder how this relates to neoteny:
Not only neoteny, but the Age of Amateurs that I described in EARTH
and The Transparent Society.
One more way to seek meaning, now that so many already have 2 cars.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/02/2003066235
From childless fans
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how this relates to neoteny:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/02/2003066235
From childless fans of kiddie music to the grown-up readers of Harry
Potter, inner children are having fun all over.
I destinctly remember
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how this relates to neoteny:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/02/2003066235
From childless fans of kiddie music to the grown-up readers of Harry
Potter, inner children are having fun all over.
I destinctly remember
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of d.brin
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 03:22 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Brin: rejuveniles
bloody amateurs. think they invented alienation. Sheesh.
You realize, of course
--- d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how this relates to neoteny:
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/02/2003066235
From childless fans of kiddie music to the grown-up readers of Harry
Potter, inner children are
In a message dated 10/6/2003 3:26:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bloody amateurs. think they invented alienation. Sheesh.
You realize, of course, how close you were to saying why in my day?
C'mon,
say it, you'll feel better.. ;)
-j-
Why in
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/6/2003 3:26:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
bloody amateurs. think they invented alienation. Sheesh.
You realize, of course, how close you were to saying why in my day?
C'mon,
say it,
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