At 11/12/2010 11:21 AM, you wrote:
Fred, I think you might win with that one. I remember those but my
parents said I was "too young for such an expensive hobby". As a
side note: I played games such as Star Trek and Zork (no video) on a
very old computer when I worked for IBM as a Field Engineer:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_360>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_360
Had my own little VM partitioned on it for "service purposes". Spent
a lot of late nights at that customer site!
-RickG
I'm not sure I win if it's based on purchase date, vs. manufacture date.
I was working for DEC in 1982 when the PDTs were put up for sale as
part of the employee purchase plan. My group (corporate
telecommunications) had been trying to make them work for a couple of
years by then, to be a call detail record collector for the company's
large fleet of PBXs. The PDTs were apparently built in 1978, with
the goal of selling them to the phone companies for embedded
applicatons like that. But they didn't work very well. The CDR
project never quite worked. So the unsold machines went out of the
warehouse to employees.
They were bundled with a printer and a video display terminal. The
printer was a DECwriter IV, I think -- a serial terminal good for
maybe 30 cps. I don't recall if it was 7-pin or 9-pin, but hi-res it
wasn't. The VDT was a VT-62. Not the well-known VT-52, but another
failed hack. The VT-62 had a very complex form-filling system, kinda
like an IBM 3270 in concept, that was meant to be used in a
transaction processing system called TRAX-11. That was DEC's biggest
failure to date. A PDP-11/45, which handled a couple of dozen normal
VT-52 users, could only handle one or two TRAX terminals, if
that. So the VT-62s sat in the warehouse gathering dust. A switch
on the bottom put them into VT-52 emulation mode, and that's how we
used them with RT-11.
My most disappointing early "computing" experience, though, was an
early-1960s kit called Brainiac, which had a few wheels with wires
and contact points that you could wire together. The ads on kids' TV
made it sound like a computer, but it did little more than light a
few flashlight bulbs. Very boring.
I did play with Wayne Green's Altair in 1975, though, including a
phone call to MITS that summer to ask the guy who wrote it how to
actually get 4k BASIC running. It was a college kid with a summer
job there, fella name of Bill. He never did finish Harvard.
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Fred Goldstein
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
At 11/12/2010 12:56 AM, you wrote:
I win. HA!
I still have my old DEC PDP-11 (actually, a PDT-11/150, with an
LSI-11 CPU, 60kB, and two 8-inch floppies). I haven't fired it up
in years, but I recently pulled out the 8" floppy case to show some
young people. of the iPod generation, what they looked like.
It ran (runs?) RT-11. CP/M was based on RT-11 (in the "bad
imitation" sense). MS-DOS was likewise based on CP/M.
I stopped using it regularly when I got an Atari ST
("Jackintosh"). That could run a version of Phil Karn's NET and
TOS, so I was able to use it for TCP/IP over packet radio in 1987.
1200 bps semi-Aloha. Its protocol analyzer mode showed every packet
going by, and it was slow enough to really study the operation in real time.
From: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
[ mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RickG
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:33 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel
LOL! Here we go again with the "dating game" :)
My first "laptop" was this:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable
It was really cool but weighed as much as sewing machine which was
the term we gave it.
-RickG
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Forbes Mercy
<<mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote:
My first "LAP"top was a Kaypro 10, thank goodness I didn't have to
pay baggage on it since it was as large as my travel bag...
monochrome green screen with a huge 10MB hard drive and ran hot
enough to fry an egg.
On 11/11/2010 8:09 AM, Mark Nash wrote:
Haha... You young people don't remember the term WYSIWYG (what you
see is what you get)... A term for applications that made it so
that documents actually LOOKED on your screen like they were going
to print (anyone remember Kaypro & WordStar?).
I had a revolutionary idea technological in the early 90's... I
called it WYGIWYM... What you get is what you MEAN. I'da been a
qua-jillionaire but I didn't execute. Oh well.
----- Original Message -----
From: <mailto:[email protected]>Scott Carullo
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Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel
I'd pay a little more when they come out with the auto-install feature...
Maybe one day - Auto-Everything. Just take it out of the box and
plug it in. It figures out what to do where...
They can call it AIRverywhere
Scott Carullo
Technical Operations
855-FLSPEED x102
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From: "Robert West" <<mailto:[email protected]>
[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:31 PM
To: "WISPA General List" <mailto:[email protected]><[email protected]>
Subject: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel
FYI
I'm hesitant to jump into UBNT Beta firmware for large scale
deployment, lesson learned the hard way
But the latest includes
channel hopping and Auto channel. I've had ongoing issues with
random interference and every couple of weeks or so have had to
change my frequencies on pretty much all my UBNT radios. But I
took the plunge with this new beta and it's been SOLID for me for a
week now. I tried the channel hopping but it was too busy for
me. My noise floor was all over the place. SUCKED and way too
random for me BUT just doing a simple AUTO channel
. Smooth as
silk! My interference is now GONE. My throughput has increased
and my noise floor went from an average -85 to a -95 to -100
average. Running 5GHz on all links
.. I call this one a WIN!
As I said, FYI. Nothing but good on this UBNT Beta. It's about time! J
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