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Mid 60’s here. This is probably going to be our last nice week.

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RichieJ said:

Perfect review Frenkyou!

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Thank you RichieJ

Territoo said:

A nice day here, high of 87⁰.

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That's too hot for me.

I'm in same era as you @ShowMeTwice, back from when there UPSI switches, and punch cards. I was at Motorola and being a federal supplier, arpanet was king. We could telnet of FTP or TFTP to other contractors (mainly Boeing) or universities. My first email address was be548@email.mot.com. Usenet was great.

We had one IBM datacenter that was 12K square feet. You forgot to mention 'chillers'. There was so much heat generated, there was a jug (can't remember if it was anti-freeze or water) beside some cabinets.

In our HP dataceneter we had those replaceable hard drives. 4@5Mb platters that were interchangable.

Because they were the 68000 creator I got access to all their new chips like their early 8800 chips and UNIX. We had the source code to UNIX System V before the split.

We've come a long way.

FranC said:

38 for the high today. Glad I don't have to go out.

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A nice day here, high of 87⁰.

38 for the high today. Glad I don't have to go out.

Great stories, guys. I remember in the late '80's when they said one day a computer would fit into your hand and I couldn't imagine it and.......here we are today with smartphones.

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Perfect review Frenkyou!

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Hopefully it'll be a quick week. Was informed last Friday that the building will be empty by 4pm on Friday (Thanksgiving break starts next week). Which means I have to be at the school by 8:30 rather than Noon. No way I'm going to sit in an empty school for 4 hours. LOL

rosesense said:

I bet no one here remembers when there wasn't internet and a computer used floppies only and the screen would gradually fade out when you turned the computer off. Also, the days of basically programming with the F keys (I had to look to see if they are still on the keyboard, lol).

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My first "computer" that I used was a Univac DCT 9000 back in the late 70's. Personal computers were not yet mainstream for the general public, although some businesses were beginning to adopt early versions. A few short years later, the military gave Zenith a contract for the first PCs to hit the military in a big way. The earliest of those models were dual floppy drive systems where one disk contained the OS (MS DOS), and the second was your program/data storage.

Oh... I still remember my old ARPANET login, too.

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