Hollywood Gets Wrong
About Its Favorite Tech
Quite a story!
Could Gotyes State of the Art video (although there's the focus on an old
musical instrument-computer) be related to this in any way? :-)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk)
Somewhere in the early 1970's I did a lot
Quite a story!
Could Gotyes State of the Art video (although there's the focus on an old
musical instrument-computer) be related to this in any way? :-)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWIKQMBBTtk)
Somewhere in the early 1970's I did a lot of software development on rented
time. One place I
The Model 75 was a beast. Just doing a lamp test would cause a power flux in
the ovehead lights. I'm not sure how much main and LCS storage was hung off of
it, but, by standards (s/370 was already gaining marketshare) it was impressive
in the number of Jobs we could pump out of it. The
Your drifting nostalgic contribution goes a long way in distinguishing the
cultural differences in data processing (excuse me.. I.T.) back in those days.
I worked weekends as an Operator at Greyhound Computer Corporation in S.F.
with a 360/30, 360/50, and 360/75 on the floor. A mezzanine
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Your drifting nostalgic contribution goes a long way in distinguishing the
cultural differences in data processing (excuse me.. I.T.) back in those days.
I
operations.)
Charles
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charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
LOL. Thanks. No, I really can't remember. Maybe too many illegal substances
in the 1970's.
I remember some of the places I bought time: Bayer in Emeryville, Central
Bank Computer Bureau in Oakland, ..., but it was neither of those. (Man,
those were
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Orwell]
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On 4/15/2013 1:01 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote:
I remember once seeing a used card sorter in a side show tent at a country fair
somewhere. I think it was in the tent where you could have your fortune read
or your weight guessed.
In the seventies there was a small fortune telling store in Times
: 'Hacking The Mainframe': What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Its
Favorite Tech
On 4/15/2013 1:01 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote:
I remember once seeing a used card sorter in a side show tent at a country
fair somewhere. I think it was in the tent where you could have your
fortune read or your weight guessed
of solidity to pure
wind.” [George Orwell]
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On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 10:50:38 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
trivia ... the cpu-meter required 400ms of idle (both cpu and all
channels) to coast to a stop. long after most hardware had shifted from
lease to purchase, MVS still had a fixed timer interval that would wake
the system every 400ms
At 17:01 + on 04/15/2013, DASDBILL2 wrote about Re: 'Hacking The
Mainframe': What Hollywood Gets Wrong About:
I remember once seeing a used card sorter in a side show tent at a
country fair somewhere. I think it was in the tent where you could
have your fortune read or your weight
In e1ac8635-312c-40be-8182-a0580cc6a...@comcast.net, on 04/12/2013
at 11:41 PM, Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net said:
It wasn't always blinking lights that the public and Hollywood
equated to computers. I think that of the movies I have seen, most
of them focused (pun not intended) on
operations.
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It wasn't always blinking lights that the public and Hollywood equated
to computers. I think that of the movies I have seen, most of them
focused (pun not intended) on spinning reel-to-reel tape drives. At
one point I went to work at a company which was replacing an
antiquated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk
1961 IBM 7094 sings Daisy.
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote:
Steve Marak wrote:
It would all be a lot funnier to me if I didn't frequently run into people
who *believe* Hollywood's conception of computers, computer
Steve Marak wrote:
It would all be a lot funnier to me if I didn't frequently run into people who
*believe* Hollywood's conception of computers, computer security, hacking,
etc. Apparently it is so far out of their wheelhouse that they have no way to
engage the skepticism that would save them
In 51630ff9.2060...@acm.org, on 04/08/2013
at 01:44 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said:
On 04/08/2013 09:22 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
The comedy blog Slackstory published An Ode to Movie Mainframes this
week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with hacking the
mainframe. Movies
The comedy blog Slackstory published An Ode to Movie Mainframes this
week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with hacking the
mainframe. Movies most often use the phrase to mean that the hacker
can now do anything he or she wants with a given computer system. But
in the real world,
On 04/08/2013 09:22 AM, Gabe Goldberg wrote:
The comedy blog Slackstory published An Ode to Movie Mainframes this
week, chronicling Hollywood's age-old obsession with hacking the
mainframe. Movies most often use the phrase to mean that the hacker
can now do anything he or she wants with a
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
In the late 1970's, the Computer 'Pit'. at the University of Waterloo, was
'borrowed' for a few scenes in a movie called Utilities starring Robert Hayes
(it came out in 1981).
The director complained that there weren't enough flashing lights (iirc, it
was a 158).
So, a bunch
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