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I dont miss the long distance phone bills
yep. but i remember back in the early 70s connecting to a computer somewhere in asia where i could get stuff cheaper than the crazy long distance rates.
yup. i actually wrote a CP/M operating system for the Commodore 64 back in the day. i was on the verge of selling it to a company for more money than i'd ever dreamed of, then ibm came out with the pc and msdos and pretty much crushed that dream.
old phart? nah. i wire-wrapped my first few computers. i was working at my 3rd or 4th computer job when Lisa came out. and had built or bought numerous computers by then. at that time i was working at Northstar, which was formerly known as "Kentucky Fried Computers"
i'm also quite possibly the only person on the planet who refused to hire Steve Jobs. bad, bad, bad decision... i met him and Woz at the homebrew computer club back in the mid-70s. (my oldest daughter is an apple fangirl. i still thinks she hates me for not hiring jobs)
crap. i multi-posted as if i was Deb
Which facility? (Beaver Gulch, Walker Road, Wilsonville, Vancouver) What did you do there?
You got me beat by a couple years, Robert. I started with a totally dead idiot box connected to a Cyber mainframe, then up to stoopid boxes attached to PDP 11/70 VAX for a few years before I ever got a stand-alone personal computer (Mac, then Lisa, then PC Windoze 3.1 (never had to do DOS by itself).
I actually had a Commodore C128 CPM machine.no comment...
yep. but i remember back in the early 70s connecting to a computer somewhere in asia where i could get stuff cheaper than the crazy long distance rates.
yup. i actually wrote a CP/M operating system for the Commodore 64 back in the day. i was on the verge of selling it to a company for more money than i'd ever dreamed of, then ibm came out with the pc and msdos and pretty much crushed that dream.
old phart? nah. i wire-wrapped my first few computers. i was working at my 3rd or 4th computer job when Lisa came out. and had built or bought numerous computers by then. at that time i was working at Northstar, which was formerly known as "Kentucky Fried Computers"
i'm also quite possibly the only person on the planet who refused to hire Steve Jobs. bad, bad, bad decision... i met him and Woz at the homebrew computer club back in the mid-70s. (my oldest daughter is an apple fangirl. i still thinks she hates me for not hiring jobs)
crap. i multi-posted as if i was Deb
I did not actually get my first computer myself till 76 or so. I forget exactly.
My memory had gotten more dynamic in recent years with fewer refresh cycles
not sure if i even ever knew they made those.
was that their belated attempt from going down the tube?
My first computer was a trs-80, learned fortran and machine language on a mainframe, did the punch card thing, and i have forgotten all of it
Last stinkie 10/15/2013
Last stinkie 10/15/2013
Fortran and punch cards... forgot those even existed, but back when dinosaurs roamed the Tek halls, everyone had a stack of punch cards... Ah, the good ole daze.... (when we were REQUIRED to think)
sounds like you're even older-schooled than me. i never did punch cards.
i used to be in charge of the circuit board repair department for Atari back in the early 70s (think Pong). after a while i got wind that engineering was coming out with a new game that used some weird thing called a microproccessor. after a while, i figgered out it was kinda like a computer. so, i asked all my techs if they even knew what that meant, and one said he did. so i relieved him from repairing circuit boards so he could tell me what a computer was.
we had a SPC-12 mini stuck in a closet that used to run assembly stuff, but nobody knew how to use it, so it was collecting dust. he got it working after spending an hour two to key in the boot code on the switches, so it would type to the teletype machine. after the power went out and he had to do that again, i loudly proclaimed "WTx worth is this computer crap? i can do the same thing by designing circuits"
fast-forward a few months/years, and i'd already wire-wrapped several computers at home, and had designed a few at work.
70's computing was pretty exciting, even w/o live chat or video
This is rather exciting. I actually feel like I am conversing with old workmates from "the good old days" ... the days that likely will never be repeated ... so we all worked in different companies... we are of the same era when all this "high tech" was a brand new invention... Sigh. I miss it...
holy MOG. i just found my twin on the internet
i am SO freaked out right now
ok. so i''m uglier than that dude. i can live with that
still freaky...
Yep, a few techies here - did the punch card thing - I was programming on Sperry MainFrames with ADA back in the late 70's/early 80's... Do I miss it - Oh Hey No... My first computer only had a dual floppy setup, which I later added that 80mb hd to so I could beef it up. Paid more for that basic computer than I have for my last 3 laptops combined... Almost had to take out a second mortgage to afford them...
Orchids for Halloween. 
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