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"Larry" wrote in message
... "Roger Long" wrote in : Anybody remember the Sinclair Z80? That was my first computer. A Basic loop to count 1,2,3.... would go slower than you could say the number out loud. -- Roger Long Z80's good....especially running CP/M OS....(c; I was an Ohio Scientific microcomputer dealer. OSI had the first hard drive micro, a 74MB (MB not GB) fixed hard drive stolen out of minicomputers. It had a 14" platter and was mounted in the Model 3's standard 18" equipment rack. There were 3 processors you could switch between very easily. A 6502, Z80 and 6800 (not 68000). OS-65/U was the companies OS to run on the 6502, a great little processor, and it came with a very extended BASIC interpreter making software fun to write. We wrote an accounting system to keep track of a few thousand vending machines/jukeboxes, etc., for Sumter Music and Amusements in our town. The system was the 74MB computer under OS-65/U with our BASIC program running on it. The box used dumb terminals and we had 4 cards in it with 4 ADDS Regent 24 dumb terminals on various desks in their office. They were thrilled that such a cheap system could do what it cost, at that time, hundreds of thousands of dollars to do on an expensive minicomputer. It ran for years 24/7 off a commercial UPS we installed for it. Crashing on power glitches wasn't pretty! It usually took out the database. Backup was in 8" floppies each week and we handled that for them after hours. Dick or I would go down at night and take the backup with us in case the building burned we'd still have the whole database, only updating what had been done between the backup and the fire, which never happened. The UPS failed once, but we got lucky and noone was writing to the hard drive when the crash occurred. We went way, way past the noted MTBF. OSI couldn't believe how long it ran.... (c; IBM came out with the PC and that was the end of OSI and our little computer store. My biggest sale was to Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co in North Carolina. They wanted to break their people into microcomputers and funded a whole school with 36 OSI desktop computers in the training room. Those used little NTSC video monitors as output and had two floppy drives and a keyboard in a pre-Apple 1 small computer that actually worked. Their IT boss was a fan of OSI and used to send us some really neat software he wrote on them to play with on ours. The PC just put everyone out of business....almost Apple, too! ================================================== ========= The Maemo Linux hackers have written or ported many old small computer emulators to the tablet's Linux OS. There may be one for the Sinclair. There's one for the old TI handhelds, I know. Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
news Capt. JG wrote: "Wayne.B" wrote in message ... On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:15:11 -0700, "Capt. JG" wrote: Friends don't let friends use Vista. It actually runs pretty well on a Quad Core desktop with 4 GB of memory and a fast hard disk. :-) I'm liking it better than I thought I would but there is still some software that won't run. I've had nothing but problems with it when trying to support those who have it. Yeah, I'm sure it's quite adequate with a Quad and 4gigs. :-) Which is more computer power that several foriegn countries combined! WHY? Why do I need that much power to do what I've been doing all along? Because you can! LOL -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:24:29 -0700, "Capt. JG"
wrote: Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while. Is that the one that used to run down Jackson Street? Never met Concurrent. --Vic |
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"Gogarty" wrote in message
... In article lutions, lid says... Friends don't let friends use Vista. I was co-author of a "VISTA for idiots" type book. As such, was a beta tester on Vista. I could not wait to banish it from my system as soon as the project was done. Indeed, friends don't let friends use Vista. Except for one module, voice recognition. Excellent. Wish I could find such a module that would run on XP. I had a friend who needed VR. I think he used Dragon and hated it. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com |
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Gogarty wrote:
In article lutions, lid says... Friends don't let friends use Vista. I was co-author of a "VISTA for idiots" type book. As such, was a beta tester on Vista. I could not wait to banish it from my system as soon as the project was done. Indeed, friends don't let friends use Vista. Except for one module, voice recognition. Excellent. Wish I could find such a module that would run on XP. Many years back I worked for the University of Delaware in the Office of Instructional Technology. These were the DOS days, of course. We had video overlays on DOS screens, text to voice and voice recognition projects up and running - under DOS - on 33 Mhz ATs. So it's not a technology thing, as much as a business thing. That's ny opinion - for what it's worth. -- Richard (remove the X to email) |
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mister b wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:15:41 -0500, cavelamb himself wrote: Find me a decent CAD to replace my beloved Design CAD and I'll convert to Linux. google qcad Qcad is a fairly simple 2D only system. Not gonna do it for me... For instance, (this being a nautical forum) http://www.home.earthlink.net/~cavelamb/draft.htm We start in flat space, but wind up in 3D - fully rendered. All in one package. Now there are lots of CAD systems that can do this - but they don't run under Linux. But the _thing_ that keeps Ubuntu in the box is the CAD issue. what does that mean? mo betta? -- Richard (remove the X to email) |
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Wayne.B wrote:
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:15:41 -0500, cavelamb himself wrote: But the thing that keeps Ubuntu in the box is the CAD issue. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=linux+CAD+software Oooo... Suddenly I feel like a kid on Christmas morning! There are a couple there that I hadn't seen before and need to investigate. Thanks Wayne -- Richard (remove the X to email) |
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"Capt. JG" wrote in
easolutions: Anyone remember the S100 bus? I worked with Concurrent CPM for a while. Sure! Kept me poor buying parts to build them for years....(c; My first was a Southwest Technical Products that had 8 toggle switches for input and 8 light bulbs for output.....then, some smartass sold me a TELETYPE interface! REAL programmers use: COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE on DOS machines....(c; |
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cavelamb himself wrote in news:FPqdnRZ-
: Suddenly I feel like a kid on Christmas morning! That's the trouble with Linux. EVERY morning is Christmas morning! |
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cavelamb himself wrote in
m: I started out on AutoCAD version 10 (for over $8000!!!) I didn't like it then - and still don't. I've seen a few ACAD systems brought up to near the same level via macros, but those generally don't come with the system. And none of them have the gravity point select feature from DCad. We couldn't afford AutoCAD, and really didn't have a use for it, either. But, the "inner circle" who ran the 14,400 baud computer club BBS I was a member of, used to have several hidden-from-users little places where various DOS softwares COULD, if one were to look, download some pretty expensive stuff, like the absolute bleeding edge versions of AutoCAD that made it onto those directories as if by magic, the very day the version was released....(c; Spending 14 hours downloading something amazing at 3AM on a workday didn't seem that unusual, either!....(yawn)..... Lucky for them the soundcard and nice graphics card hadn't been invented yet. We didn't have all the music and movies until years later.....(c; |
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