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.
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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 04:32 PM 10/9/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
with no indication of their correct order.
That's what those numbers punched in columns 72-80 were for . . .
Yep - I never made that mistake again...
:-)
Of course, that was supposed to read columns *73* through 80 . . .
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]
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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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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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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
_
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
At 06:23 PM 10/8/03 -0500, 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...
Then in the middle of the third and
At 01:29 PM 10/9/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
John Garcia wrote:
Does anyone else remember making pictures on greenbar paper of ships,
people, etc?
We had that as an assignment in school (1976) - we had to write a program
in BASIC to draw the picture, and encode it on punch cards (we
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:
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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
In a message dated 10/7/2003 1:19:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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...
10? What luxury.
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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
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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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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
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]
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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
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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:
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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
At 05:02 PM 10/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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To: 'Killer Bs Discussion' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: When I Was Your Age... (was Re: RE: Brin: rejuveniles)
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From
While we're on the topic, I also remember the family next door owning a TV
with one of the first remote controls. It was two buttons: 'power on/off'
and 'channel' and made a horrendous clicking noise each time you used the
button. I think you had to scroll through every channel to find the
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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At 06:55 PM 10/7/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
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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
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