Older Folks and Vaping Back Porch - Part Seven
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If you read a lot of SciFi, artificial intelligence doesn't end up good in most of the stories. At least the ones I've read lately. Basically when they wake up to sentience they basically decide what the hell do they need us for. Not a SkyNet kind of thing but basically the hman race ends up as second class citizens.
Used the TTY machines for quite a while in Radio Central on my first ship.I was more fortunate in we had the good ol' IBM 029 card punch machines.
Messages were originally done on an ASR28 Teletype machine to get the punched paper tape.
On the DCT 9000 series systems, you had to reprogram them every night at 2359 zulu in order to set them up for the current date/time. This was done with punched cards. Want to give your supervisor an immediate coronary? Take a stack of blank cards, walk towards the hopper as if you're going to set up for the reprogram, and drop the stack.
Holiday Inn used them for scheduling reservations with other motels in the chain. We had some excellent conversations across country in the middle of the night.
hee-haw, hee-haw, screech, screech .... yepper day was da bomb.
So did Janet when I first met her.
I worked at an answering service for a few weeks in the early 70's that had a literal switchboard. Headset, plug in, flip the switches to answer. We had to write down the messages & then type them up. The owner ran the business in her home from her bed. She'd had terrible RA from childhood & been in a car accident on top of it.
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Is your PC PC?
I started early with computers, taking an Economics course at UMass in 1969, for which the professor had written and published his own textbook. The one and only requirement for the course was to write a program to get the school computer (it was a whole building) to solve an economics problem.
Then, in the middle of my 4th semester in 1971, I dropped out to find myself. When I do, I'm going back.
Got a Windows 95 machine for Christmas in 1997. I did take "Introduction to Computer Applications" at my local community college in 1990... only college course for which I ever got an A.
I started early with computers, taking an Economics course at UMass in 1969, for which the professor had written and published his own textbook. The one and only requirement for the course was to write a program to get the school computer (it was a whole building) to solve an economics problem.
Then, in the middle of my 4th semester in 1971, I dropped out to find myself. When I do, I'm going back.
Got a Windows 95 machine for Christmas in 1997. I did take "Introduction to Computer Applications" at my local community college in 1990... only college course for which I ever got an A.
I salvaged two boxes of da p-cards from da trash bin; great 'to-do' and check lists!
Noticed no one has mentioned da 8" floppies...
Still have one from my instructor days from testing/teaching da ALM-126 Semi-Automatic Support Equipment fer da ALQ-119 ECM pod. Day-um, sure do miss dose exciting days! <sigh>
ETA: IIRC, HP2528/128K dual drive 'puter. If not correct, SOP nowadays...
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I never used those. I did run across an unopened box of 10 DS DD 5.25" floppies while going through junk at my house. Still wrapped in cellophane. I've got a variety of streaming tape backup tape cartridges (not the drives), and an open reel tape. All that will soon end up in the trash, while I mutter about holding onto them for so long.I salvaged two boxes of da p-cards from da trash bin; great 'to-do' and check lists!
Noticed no one has mentioned da 8" floppies...
Still have one from my instructor days from testing/teaching da ALM-126 Semi-Automatic Support Equipment fer da ALQ-119 ECM pod. Day-um, sure do miss dose exciting days! <sigh>
ETA: IIRC, HP2528/128K dual drive 'puter. If not correct, SOP nowadays...
Another commentary on TV commercials.
Ally Bank
1. The Ally Bank employee who's about to give birth. Great ad. "Two of my girls are Toms."
2. The Ally Bank employee who goes wading to get the quarter that her date tossed into a fountain. Stupid ad. Who would trust a banker who believes the obvious lie that her date tells? "What year is that one?"
Amazon, where two friends with different faiths buy each other knee pads. Good ad.
Geico or Progressive. Since I don't know which one, the ad fails the prime test of making sure the viewer identifies with the product. But it's funny anyway, the one where the meteor will destroy Earth in less than one minute.
Unrelated, I've got a stack of 3.5" disks filled with various stuff that I keep for no particularly good reason.
Ally Bank
1. The Ally Bank employee who's about to give birth. Great ad. "Two of my girls are Toms."
2. The Ally Bank employee who goes wading to get the quarter that her date tossed into a fountain. Stupid ad. Who would trust a banker who believes the obvious lie that her date tells? "What year is that one?"
Amazon, where two friends with different faiths buy each other knee pads. Good ad.
Geico or Progressive. Since I don't know which one, the ad fails the prime test of making sure the viewer identifies with the product. But it's funny anyway, the one where the meteor will destroy Earth in less than one minute.
Unrelated, I've got a stack of 3.5" disks filled with various stuff that I keep for no particularly good reason.
Had a Xerox word processor that used them. Think it was around 1983I salvaged two boxes of da p-cards from da trash bin; great 'to-do' and check lists!
Noticed no one has mentioned da 8" floppies...
Still have one from my instructor days from testing/teaching da ALM-126 Semi-Automatic Support Equipment fer da ALQ-119 ECM pod. Day-um, sure do miss dose exciting days! <sigh>
ETA: IIRC, HP2528/128K dual drive 'puter. If not correct, SOP nowadays...
Haven't seen the meteor one yet. I pretty much hate the Ally Bank ads. I do like the "Chaos" ads for Allstate though. At least I think it was chaos. Pretty funny, specially the one with the foam fingers.
Nope it was Mahem not chaos. Still pretty funny. Here's a quick compilation if you haven't seen em.
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