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2003-03-05 Thread Chappell, Simon P
>> So ... how does lisp run on those? Is it available for the >> Tungsten T? (Couldn't resist! ;-) > >http://www.lispme.de/lispme/ > >And, sadly, I haven't been at a job that required LISP for almost 10 >years now. Sadly!?!? It's been about that since I did RPG and the nightmares still haunt me.

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2003-03-05 Thread alexj
ECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:01 PM Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > You won't believe this, but my little beauty is a P133 with 4x8MB SIMMS, 2MB > s3 Trio Video card, 2.1GB HD, and a sound blaster 16. Runs Mandrake 8.2 jes > fine. Th

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2003-03-05 Thread alexj
: "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:12 PM Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) So ... how does lisp run on those? Is it available for

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2003-03-05 Thread James Turner
> -Original Message- > From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 1:13 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > So ... how does lisp run on those?

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2003-03-05 Thread Jarnot Voytek Contr AU HQ/SC
AM > >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > >Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > > > >In the office: > > > >Homebuilt P4 2.4Ghz with 512MB RAM, GeForce 2400, Mylex RAID > controller > >with 9 36GB SCSI drives

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2003-03-05 Thread Chappell, Simon P
So ... how does lisp run on those? Is it available for the Tungsten T? (Couldn't resist! ;-) >-Original Message- >From: James Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:49 AM >To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' >Subject: RE: Modern C

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2003-03-05 Thread Hookom, Jacob John
-Original Message- > From: Hookom, Jacob John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2003 17:38 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: [OT] RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > I love my lapt

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2003-03-05 Thread James Turner
In the office: Homebuilt P4 2.4Ghz with 512MB RAM, GeForce 2400, Mylex RAID controller with 9 36GB SCSI drives in a separate enclosure, Sony 4x DVD+-RW Drive, hooked up through a KVM switch to an Envision 17" flat panel running XP Pro. Homebuilt P4 1.8Ghz with 512MB RAM running Redhat 8 hooked up

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2003-03-05 Thread Sean Chambers
03 17:38 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: [OT] RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > I love my laptop, well, I shouldn't call it a laptop-- more > properly termed a mobile desktop since the beautiful 16" > screen leaves you with about 2 ho

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2003-03-05 Thread Hookom, Jacob John
e coverage, the batteries for it will run you about 400 dollars US. GET ONE! -Original Message- From: Jarnot Voytek Contr AU HQ/SC [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 3/5/2003 11:29 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Cc: Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient comput

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2003-03-05 Thread Jarnot Voytek Contr AU HQ/SC
o:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:11 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > I have: > Sony GRV550 P4 2.4GHz Laptop w/ 512 MB DDR and 16" Screen w/ XP Pro > Server P4 1.5GHz 1GB

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2003-03-05 Thread Chen, Gin
I have an Atari. Can't do much coding on it but Donkey Kong is fun. -Tim -Original Message- From: Sean Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:12 PM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computin

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2003-03-05 Thread Sean Chambers
t; To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > Sean Chambers wrote: > > >i still have the zx81 > > > > > > > >>-Original Message- > >>From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[E

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2003-03-05 Thread Hookom, Jacob John
To: Struts Users Mailing List Cc: Subject: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) OK, enough reminising ... what do people currently have? I have a Mac tower with dual 550MHz G4 CPUs, 1.5Gb of RAM and the 22" CinemaDis

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2003-03-05 Thread Jarnot Voytek Contr AU HQ/SC
> CinemaDisplay flat panel monitor. I run Mac OS X 10.2.4 on it. And, it > almost goes without saying that, I love it. > > Simon > > >-Original Message----- > >From: du Plessis, Corneil C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:13 AM > >To: Struts

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2003-03-05 Thread Bueno Carlos M
computers from shuttleonline. -- Carlos "No Nickname" Bueno -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:18 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) OK, enough remi

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2003-03-05 Thread Joel Wickard
Sean Chambers wrote: i still have the zx81 -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 16:18 To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) OK, enough reminising ... what do people currently have

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2003-03-05 Thread Sean Chambers
i still have the zx81 > -Original Message- > From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 05 March 2003 16:18 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Modern Computing (was RE: [OT] Ancient computing) > > > OK, enough reminising ... what do peopl

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2003-03-05 Thread Kandi Potter
Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Here in South Africa technology was in the same state in the late 70s and early 80s. Doing computer studies meant complete coding sheet this week next week receive punch cards and compile report if successfull compile you may even get an execution report

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2003-03-05 Thread Kandi Potter
Do I get a prizelike youth renewal or even the Struts Book so I can try to keep up with the times? -Original Message- From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:10 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing You win

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2003-03-05 Thread Chappell, Simon P
du Plessis, Corneil C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:13 AM >To: Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing > > >Playing the Space shuttle games on the Commodore 64 was just awesome! > >-Original Message- >From:

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2003-03-05 Thread Nelson, Laird
> -Original Message- > From: du Plessis, Corneil C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Playing the Space shuttle games on the Commodore 64 was just awesome! Attempting--very, very, very badly--to write Donkey Kong on a TRS-80 was better. :-) Laird ---

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2003-03-05 Thread Ray Madigan
You win 70 to 71 - ouch again -Original Message- From: Kandi Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 6:34 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing My guess is early 70sbecause my first experience was also in high school using

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2003-03-05 Thread du Plessis, Corneil C
Playing the Space shuttle games on the Commodore 64 was just awesome! -Original Message- From: Nelson, Laird [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March, 2003 18:10 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing > -Original Message- > From: Ti

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2003-03-05 Thread Nelson, Laird
> -Original Message- > From: Tim Shadel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > First family computer I remember: 8080 > > First that I used: Atari or Commodore64 with BASIC (hooked it > to the TV, > screen was blue with white letters [forboadings of M$??], > eventually had > a 5 1/4 disk drive)

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2003-03-05 Thread Clement, Stephen
sage- From: Pani, Gourav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:47 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing ok so i am a kid. first computer - 386. -Original Message- From: Bueno Carlos M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesd

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2003-03-05 Thread Tim Shadel
be a youngster -- mine were a Zenith-Heath kit computer running CP/M and an Atari 400 with BASIC. -Original Message- From: Kandi Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:34 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing My guess is earl

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2003-03-05 Thread du Plessis, Corneil C
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March, 2003 17:47 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing ok so i am a kid. first computer - 386. -Original Message- From: Bueno Carlos M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:46 AM To: 'Struts Use

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2003-03-05 Thread Pani, Gourav
ok so i am a kid. first computer - 386. -Original Message- From: Bueno Carlos M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:46 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Dang, I must be a youngster -- mine were a Zenith-Heath ki

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2003-03-05 Thread Bueno Carlos M
Dang, I must be a youngster -- mine were a Zenith-Heath kit computer running CP/M and an Atari 400 with BASIC. -Original Message- From: Kandi Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:34 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing My

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2003-03-05 Thread Kandi Potter
nutes executing until the output came out on the printer ! -Original Message- From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Well - lets see: Does older win this contest :-) My first comp

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2003-03-05 Thread Simon Kelly
L PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:37 AM Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing > Well - lets see: > > Does older win this contest :-) > > My first computing experience was in high school. We had a room in > the science lab with an old IBM computer - I think at one

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2003-03-05 Thread StrutsBolsover
- eh! what where did I put my hearing aid... db > -Original Message- > From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 March 2003 23:38 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing > > > Well - lets see: > > Does older win this

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2003-03-04 Thread James Higginbotham
ED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:52 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing (was RE: [OT] Don't beat > on James! (wasRE:[OT] JavaScript: ActionForm Does Not Contain > Dynamically Set Data) > > > Wow - some of you guys are *old*

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2003-03-04 Thread Ray Madigan
computing I wrote the first design patterns using sticks and stones. Facade was easy. Iterator was hard and took up a lot of rocks. :) -Original Message- From: awc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient

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2003-03-04 Thread jbaker
The first computer I used ran a simple assembler and had about 1k of memory. I think it was a TI. You had to toggle programs in or use the attachable card reader (you had to feed them by hand, one at a time). There wasn't a card punch, so I had to work out the codes and punch them by hand.

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2003-03-04 Thread Clement, Stephen
I wrote the first design patterns using sticks and stones. Facade was easy. Iterator was hard and took up a lot of rocks. :) -Original Message- From: awc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing

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2003-03-04 Thread awc
TI-994A - which could generate tow tones same time. very cool machine. .anil James Childers wrote: > My first experience with programming was on a TI-994A. Had 4K RAM, I think, and no > storage. Yes, you heard me right: no storage. Not a floppy. I would write a program > and as soon as I turn

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2003-03-04 Thread James Turner
> From: Becky Norum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > A geek in diapers, right? ;) Mum put your high chair right > next to the keyboard so you could start clicking away.. when > was the term "geek" coined, anyway? Strictly, a geek is the sideshow employee designated to bite the head off a live ch

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2003-03-04 Thread Becky Norum
A geek in diapers, right? ;) Mum put your high chair right next to the keyboard so you could start clicking away.. when was the term "geek" coined, anyway? Though I do know a 4-year old who, while her father was searching for an update for a game, pushed him away from the computer and told him

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2003-03-04 Thread James Turner
The first computer I used was a PDP-8/I. It had 12K of 12 bit memory. You used an ASR-33 teletype to talk to it. You had to toggle in the boot program via the front panel, then load a paper tape, then load another paper tape. It ran Edusystem 30 BASIC from DEC. The next year, our school graduat

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2003-03-04 Thread Dave Newton
On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 16:51, Becky Norum wrote: > Wow - some of you guys are *old*. =) Hey now. I was just geeky at a very, very early age. There's a difference... although... maybe I'd rather be old ;) Dave - To unsubscrib

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2003-03-04 Thread Chappell, Simon P
>A few years after this I graduated to one of the gray Mac >512k's. That was the last time I had a Mac, dammit! And I >lked it. *sigh* I made the switch to mac at home about a year ago and I love it. I have a dual 550MHz G4, 1.5Gb RAM, 60Gb HDD, OS X 10.2.4 and the 22" CinemaDisplay (flat

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2003-03-04 Thread James Childers
My first experience with programming was on a TI-994A. Had 4K RAM, I think, and no storage. Yes, you heard me right: no storage. Not a floppy. I would write a program and as soon as I turned the computer off it was gone forever. My mom eventually bought me a tape recorder so I could save my stu

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2003-03-04 Thread Rick Reumann
On 04 Mar 2003 16:51:45 -0500 Becky Norum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My first was a Commodore 128K. Spent endless hours typing in games > from the Commodore magazine - budding programmer even then. :P Load "coolGames", 8, 1 I need to get a copy of M.U.L.E. I loved that game on the C64 or mi

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2003-03-04 Thread Tim Shadel
I'm a third-generation-young-guy programmer, but my dad worked on a system (Boston area) where the disk FAT was a physical book, and you only got disk space if the technician could thumb through the book and find you some contiguous space! Tim Chappell, Simon P wrote: When I was a lad, I used

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2003-03-04 Thread alexj
yeah pappy ;)) -- Alexandre Jaquet - Original Message - From: "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:51 PM Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Arrrgh! I'm old!

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2003-03-04 Thread Pani, Gourav
well, if 29 is young then i am barely alive... ;) -Original Message- From: Chappell, Simon P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 4:52 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Arrrgh! I'm old! Good job I have a young wife (29) to comfo

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2003-03-04 Thread alexj
oh no I just born at this time lol -- Alexandre Jaquet - Original Message - From: "alexj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:49 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing > lol I wa

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2003-03-04 Thread Becky Norum
Wow - some of you guys are *old*. =) My first was a Commodore 128K. Spent endless hours typing in games from the Commodore magazine - budding programmer even then. :P Becky > - Original Message - > From: "Dave Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTEC

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2003-03-04 Thread Chappell, Simon P
Arrrgh! I'm old! Good job I have a young wife (29) to comfort me in my old age (36) :-) >-Original Message- >From: alexj [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:50 PM >To: Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing > >

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2003-03-04 Thread alexj
lol I was playing with my Playmobil at this time ;)) -- Alexandre Jaquet - Original Message - From: "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:46 PM Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient

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2003-03-04 Thread Chappell, Simon P
Struts Users Mailing List >Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing (was RE: [OT] Don't beat on James! >(was RE:[OT] JavaScript: ActionForm Does Not Contain Dynamically Set >Data) > > >lol my first PC was a pIII 500 ..(three years ago) > >-- >Alexandre Jaquet > >- O

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2003-03-04 Thread alexj
lol my first PC was a pIII 500 ..(three years ago) -- Alexandre Jaquet - Original Message - From: "Dave Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:38 PM Subject: [OT] Ancient computing (was RE: [OT] Don't beat on James!