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[timinftl]

Mine was Wang Dat, Looked like the "space-age" top of a Wurlitzer and was like 40"x32" and ran CPM...

My first pc came in kit form from Radio shack,you had to hook it to the tv then you could play ping pong

 

[Countrypami]

 

[oldbikeguy]

Mine was Wang Dat, Looked like the "space-age" top of a Wurlitzer and was like 40"x32" and ran CPM...

I remember WANG

 

[olwildbill]

Round #8

1025
1027
1029

Please and Thankyou

 

[oldbikeguy]

I see PAMI joined the purple tank club

 

[MrsCasey]

Meet SID (not Vicious), Round #8

908
909
910

Thanks!

 

[Countrypami]

I see PAMI joined the purple tank club

All my tanks are purple

 

[res125]

Round #8

1048
1058
1068

thanks

 

[Prism]

My first pc came in kit form from Radio shack,you had to hook it to the tv then you could play ping pong

My first one came from TSR in Texas. It was just a board you hooked up to a small TV, it didn't come programed with anything but it had a book. If you typed from the book it programed songs like Somewhere Over The Rainbow or games like Clue. It took forever to type in all the commands to make it do something
And heaven forbid you type one of those comands wrong and had to figure out which was screwed up

 

[Harplayr]

I remember WANG

Still got mine.
Even use it from time to time


Oh we're talkin computers!

 

[keelalagirl55]

Still got mine.
Even use it from time to time


Oh we're talkin computers!

 

[oldbikeguy]

Anybody here ever watch an IBM card sorter run I always thought those were so cool

 

[Harplayr]

Anybody here ever watch an IBM card sorter run I always thought those were so cool

Yup, my first programming class.

 

[Hillbillie]

Round #8

1083
1084
1085

 

[Drottwiler]

Meet SiD, fun, friendly & fantastic-- Round #8
# 1097
# 1098
# 1099

 

[IThrenodyI]

Meet SiD, fun, friendly & fantastic-- Round #8

991
992
993

Thanks!

 

[Adrena]

round #7
821
977
1016
1197

Pick 3 this round last back up on the board.

 

[rdsok]

Anybody here ever watch an IBM card sorter run I always thought those were so cool

I actually can't recall if it was an IBM brand or not that I worked with at SWBell back in '78... I do recall how exciting it got when there was a card jam which ended up with the whole batch all over the floor...

Luckily, that wasn't my job at the time... I was just doing the batches that were then run through it to verify the totals we had done by hand on a 10 key. If everything balanced, the accounts were then credited for the amount they sent in... In less than a year, we switched over to the optical readers which was when I started working on and fixing the terminals... because the guys they hired to fix them were a bit slow at diagnosing the problems when we had them. I was able to make the terminals process at up to 3600 items an hour if I had tweaked the terminal just right... later when I asked what they were spec'd for... I found out they were only suppose to run about 600 per hour per terminal.

 

[ShariR]

Used to run one of those back in the 70s. And an old IBM360. For a large sugar company in San Francisco. Just don't let someone call out your name and cross your arms by accident. If you are on the 3rd sort, it could take hours to get if fixed.

Anybody here ever watch an IBM card sorter run I always thought those were so cool

 

[CcaT]

I still have one of these in mint condition, with all the original packaging, manuals, warranty cards, etc...