OK, that may be the coolest thing anybody's ever said about me in my entire freaking life!
Bill might disagree though…
How do you picture the forum members looking like, if you have not met them?
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Bill might disagree though…
Thats like being proud of being slow.
Are you impressed by a x window system too?
Before the internet books existed.
It is a similar experience however the responses are timed well ahead of your reading speed.
I was on heavily by 1988. I remember when high speed was 28megabites. Before that I was trucking along at eight or nine so that was a big jump! I have worked on Arcnet networks, also known as state of the ark, as in Noah's. Three megabit or megabyte, I forget which at the moment. I heard the claims that arcnet would run over a wire coat hanger enough that I tried it, it ran. It also ran over a co-ax TV antenna wire somebody had wired an entire office complex with! Found a 200' plus coil of co-ax in an overhead too, a prior installer had decided that installing a hundred yards of co-ax with preterminated ends was easier than cutting and terminating the cable.
My brother was far ahead of me computerwise. He worked realtime systems for uncle sam that had logic gates you could flip open and work on! He was on the internet by the mid-eighties or before. While I think the official beginning date has been changed now, the origin of the internet dates to the 1970's, 1976 if I recall correctly. I forget if it was a college or military network first, they were pretty close together best I recall. I think the university WAN was first.
By the mid-nineties I was a system engineer with a dozen certifications, most of which including my MasterCNE, the follow-up to EnterpriseCNE, would cease to exist along with Novell network software in a few years.
A few of us dinosaurs still walk the earth!
Hu
I remember all the big ad's in magazines, keypunch was going to be the job of the future or whatever they called the cards that looked sorta like a time card except it had a bunch of holes in it. The local vo-tech machine instructor was tight with the industrial plants up and down the river and promoted $250,000 in seventies dollars to buy an NC lathe. The only code they had turned the prettiest two inch stainless trailer hitch balls ever, plus they were perfectly round!
My first machine was a Gateway 486-25. The odd number a sure sign they were growing the chips and testing them. Those that would run at the advertised speed were good computer chips. I paid $6600 for that beast! I had upgraded to four megabyte of ram and a full tower case. It came standard with a big 160Mg harddrive! As it happened it was the reason I got a sweet contract so impressing folks with my 486 was a good move. A few years later I gave it to the neighbor's little girl starting preschool. The best thing about it then was it was fully functional with a licensed copy of Office loaded.
A few years before I got my computer my brother had bought one for his children. Came from Radio Shack, maybe a Tandy? I remember dual 7.25" floppy drives, maybe an 8088 processor. No harddrive and most software couldn't see the dual floppy drives so you usually had to swap floppies out in one slot anyway. Two grand but it would outrun anything big blue was selling to the public at the time!
I soon got into CAD, AutoCAD 2.x several generations, 9, 10, 11, 12, and I used thirteen about a month before I got hurt and that ended my CAD career other than some special projects. Alongside AutoCAD I was running the new Intergraph PC too to be compatible with the Unix machines in the group. That was tricky as the two programs weren't compatible. I would have to reboot with different boot files for the two CAD's. I couldn't make IT understand that and they would blow away my extra boot files every time they saw them so I hid them under other names. I had the only PC running AutoCAD and Intergraph PC programs so they knew hardly anything about taking care of my machine.
Just before I left the plant in '94 they got one gig of storage. No RAID or striping, five or six hard drives. Cost was $9000!
Things have changed a wee bit over the years.
Hu
I thought the Abacus was the first computer????
Since it involved cussin‘, I think you may be correct.I thought the Abacus was the first computer????
Getting a ball to roll perfectly flat on a surface is a powerful leveling technique useful for buildings that require extremely precise levels of accuracy. Try doing that for super collider, the slightest error and the experiment won't work. Or firing a projectile to a hit a target around the curvature of the Earth or through the escape velocity.
Willowbrook Wolfy
Going pro
I’ll post pic I guess. Why Not.
I miss those days!
Happy New Year!
Very cool.
Inspector Clouseau?
Jedidiah Cayce. Edgar's great, great, grandson.Inspector Clouseau?
You look like a cop, which makes perfect sense for a moderator
I posed as a cop...Once! Those ladies at that Senior Citizen Center still haven't recovered. You ever tried getting bingo chips out of a g-string? It's murder I tell you!You look like a cop, which makes perfect sense for a moderator
