Re: [OT] Altair

2016-09-01 Thread Gregory Ewing
Grant Edwards wrote: The file containing the list of coordinates generated by a CAD program for holes in a circuit board is still often referred to as a "drill tape". Yep, and we talk about "core" memory, use a "tape archive" program to produce compressed files, and have "drives" with no

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-09-01 Thread Gregory Ewing
Christopher Reimer wrote: The first time I came across a paper tape reader when I visited the university as a teenager in 1984. A CNC machine read the paper tape to drill six holes in a piece of metal. I think that would have just been called NC (Numerical Control). CNC (Computer Numerical

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-08-30, Christopher Reimer wrote: > Paper tape reader. The first time I came across a paper tape reader > when I visited the university as a teenager in 1984. A CNC machine > read the paper tape to drill six holes in a piece of metal. The file containing

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread Sivan Greenberg
I had a Spectra Video, and I do remember fondly for allowing to experiment with fractal and all sorts of programming in BASIC. I recently watched the Steve Jobs movie and it was nice seeing how Apple was promoting that stage of early personal computers. On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:52 PM, D'Arcy

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread Christopher Reimer
> On Aug 30, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Joe wrote: > >> Am 30.08.2016 um 17:52 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: >> On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:56:07 +0200 >> Joe wrote: >>> Am 30.08.2016 um 13:01 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:21:05 -0700 Larry

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread Larry Hudson via Python-list
On 08/30/2016 11:51 AM, Joe wrote: Am 30.08.2016 um 17:52 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:56:07 +0200 Joe wrote: Am 30.08.2016 um 13:01 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:21:05 -0700 Larry Hudson via Python-list wrote:

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:51:54 +0200 Joe wrote: > I think the first BASIC Interpreter ever sold by Gates & Friend was > for this machine? How did you use your floppy drives on this machine > (Open-Write-Close)? The floppy drive came with an operating system called MDOS -

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread Joe
Am 30.08.2016 um 17:52 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:56:07 +0200 Joe wrote: Am 30.08.2016 um 13:01 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:21:05 -0700 Larry Hudson via Python-list wrote: I remember it well. It's what I

Re: [OT] Altair

2016-08-30 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:56:07 +0200 Joe wrote: > Am 30.08.2016 um 13:01 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:21:05 -0700 > > Larry Hudson via Python-list wrote: > >> I remember it well. It's what I used to initially learn C. I'm a > >>