Steve Edmonds wrote:
I also used to work with punch card equipment.
And a breakthrough was marksense cards that freed you from the punch
terminal.
We used those in my Gr. 12 Fortran class. I also worked on equipment
that could read them. As I recall, we spent most of our class time
On 08/10/2012 07:45 AM, James Knott wrote:
Steve Edmonds wrote:
I also used to work with punch card equipment.
And a breakthrough was marksense cards that freed you from the punch
terminal.
We used those in my Gr. 12 Fortran class. I also worked on equipment
that could read them. As I
same here -
I was looking for an easier way to type documents, so I bought
what I called the 'glorified typewriter' [the Apple]
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:01 PM, James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote:
And I bought my first computer (IMSAI 8080) 20 years before he was born!.
On 08/10/2012 09:21 AM, anne-ology wrote:
same here -
I was looking for an easier way to type documents, so I bought
what I called the 'glorified typewriter' [the Apple]
My first computer was an Apple IIe I used to write my MS thesis using a
daisy wheel printer. Using a
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
I remember the B.B.S. systems. My first email address was about 80
character long and it was via a B.B.S. network. Now we cannot live
without its descendant, the Internet. Can you imagine your life
without the Internet?
Actually, the Internet predates BBSs,
On 08/10/2012 09:57 AM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
I remember the B.B.S. systems. My first email address was about 80
character long and it was via a B.B.S. network. Now we cannot live
without its descendant, the Internet. Can you imagine your life
without the
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The Internet was not the Internet back then. I believe it was ARPANET
or something like that. I do remember that much in my computer
classes. College and businesses had the ability to connect to the
mainframe interconnection system that sprang out of the Dept.
Anthony you grew up in a world that many folks still have not
entered - some of us started using computers as a convenient type-writer,
some of us started communicating over the BBs with others, with the hope
that we could learn from those who were inventing these electronic gadgets,
...
On 08/09/2012 08:59 PM, anne-ology wrote:
Anthony you grew up in a world that many folks still have not
entered - some of us started using computers as a convenient type-writer,
some of us started communicating over the BBs with others, with the hope
that we could learn from those who
And I bought my first computer (IMSAI 8080) 20 years before he was born!.
anne-ology wrote:
Anthony you grew up in a world that many folks still have not
entered - some of us started using computers as a convenient type-writer,
some of us started communicating over the BBs with others,
Jay Lozier wrote:
How about paper tape readers and punch cards in the days of IBM and 7
dwarfs, Fortran, Cobol, and Basic.
Many years ago, I had a Teletype M35 ASR, which had paper tape punch
reader, which I had connected to that IMSAI 8080 mentioned in my
previous note. At one part in my
On 2012-08-10 14:04, James Knott wrote:
I also used to work with punch card equipment.
And a breakthrough was marksense cards that freed you from the punch
terminal.
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