Yeah, kids now are spoiled wimps. When I graduated from Purdue, we had to learn FORTRAN and all of the email systems were Unix. -- == = Never offend people with style when you = = can offend with sub
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FWIW, I read recently there is a (renewed) demand for COBOL programmers (us fogies are retiring). bs -- ** Bob Spidell San Jose, CA bspidell@comcast.net '67 Austin-Healey 3000 '56 Austin-Healey 100M
Wow - UNIX ? E-mail ? Sounds pretty modern. When I was at Purdue we had an IBM 7094, and Fortran was translated onto tape by an IBM 1401 from the cards we punched. About the computing power of a desk
Karl, Karl, Karl.... boy you bring back some good memories... the only job I ever had and enjoyed was a mainframe computer operator... Started in the 'tab' section sorting cards in 1966.. later moved
And here I was thinking I was up with the current trends on computer technology because I had a brand new VMS machine delivered last week. Ok, so its one of them new ones running something called Alp
Ah, yes, the 029! We had two of them at the University of Texas Department of Chemical Engineering where I was the electronics tech from 1971 through 1979. At least once a week someone would come int
Author: "Galt, Stuart A" <stuart.a.galt@boeing.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:52:15 -0700
I suspect this will quickly digress into ... Computers? we had no such thing when I was going to school. But my roommate in grad school was Chuck Babbage kept messing with a contraption that he clai
VAX - that's one of those new minicomputers, isn't it ?? I overheard a couple of the guys who were standing between the 403 Lister and the [damn - I can't remember the number any more] Burster the ot
Ahh, the memories... I still miss my VAX, VMS, and FORTRAN. I was the company FORTRAN Guru, I ended up helping all the other engineers figure out what was wrong with their programs. I too started key
Indeed we got rid of everything else. Now it's just the VAX ma'am, just the VAX. _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Shop-talk mailing li
You didn't hang out in the right places. The UNIX system with ARPANET access was over in the EE building. Some heated discussions as I recall, over the EE department having it instead of the Math de
But do you remember SUVON ? State Universities VOice Network. You could go to the Union and use one of the campus phones on the second floor (second from the aisle if I remember right) and by punchi
WOW! Its amazing how far afield this conversation has gone from garage floors and lifts! But, I guess that is what happens when a bunch of old farts start talking. And, as one of those farts, the cal
Hmm. Not quite right. It's true that the EE department had an ARPANET IMP in one of the labs (it was the signal processing prof ... can't recall his name) but they balked at buying the interface requ
That could be, the access may have been by dialup. But I'm sure it existed; and I'm pretty sure it was the big 11/70 instead of one of the smaller 11/45, etc. systems. I'll ask George, next time I s
Not Light Emitting Diodes, but NIXIE tubes. Basically a neon light with 10 cathodes, each shaped like a different number. I was just reading an article the other day about experimenting with them. A
One of my most-prized possessions is a GPS-driven clock that uses Nixie tubes for the display :-) _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Shop
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Wow. Are they really worth that much? _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Expl