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RCE wrote: "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE I did a lot of cad work on a 286 with a 12 mhz processor. When Autocad came out, I was right there, and then you needed a math coprocessor. Autocad ran under DOS long after windows became popular. I think release 10 or 11 was the first to truly run under windows. |
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Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:12:57 -0500, Wayne.B wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:07:15 GMT, "Bryan" wrote: I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! Punched cards were hi tech. I started on punched paper tape with no real editing capability. We had this huge clunky machine called a Burroughs Flexowriter with a keyboard which punched the tape. The computer was a Control Data 160A, as big as a desk, 4K of memory and it cost about $80K circa 1967. To compile and run a Fortran program it was first necessary to read the tape with the boot loader, then the tape with the Fortran compiler, followed by the source code tape (twice), and finally it would spit out a new tape with the object code on it. At that point you were ready to re-boot and test your program. i was in the math club in high school - '62/63 - and one of our projects was to help program the mainframe at sylvania in danvers, ma. with telephone jacks. and ladders. and vacuum tubes. Tom, I didn't know anyone who was in the math club. Did you have a pocket protector and a slide rule strapped to your belt? ; ) Up till the early 70's all the Engineer Students kept a slide rule on their belt, and most had a slide rule. -- Reggie ************************************************** ************* That's my story and I am sticking to it. ************************************************** ************* |
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:52:30 GMT, Shortwave Sportfishing
wrote: i was in the math club in high school - '62/63 - and one of our projects was to help program the mainframe at sylvania in danvers, ma. with telephone jacks. and ladders. and vacuum tubes. Analog or digital? I remember when Heathkit was selling an analog computer kit sometime back in the early 60s. |
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Procomm ? |
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 19:02:04 -0500, "jabadoodle"
wrote: Procomm ? Don't think so, doesn't sound right. |
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"Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net... "RCE" wrote in message ... "Bryan" wrote in message . com... "Eisboch" wrote in message ... I've been using the "handle" "Eisboch" since my early days on the net back in 1989 or '90. I had a super modern 286 computer, 13mhz clock speed and a huge hard drive with 20 mbytes of storage space. It ran on DOS with a pre-MSWindows software suite called "GeoWorks". GeoWorks actually had a windows type format and even included a word processing program called "GeoWrite". I signed onto an internet access through Prodigy and was heavily involved in some of the midi sequencing groups and "chat" rooms. You had to have a screen name, so I became "Eisboch" because I happened to be drinking a Coors Eisboch blend that night. Anyway, it's time to retire the handle. Mrs.E thinks it's stupid, and I am getting kind of tired of it anyway. From now on I shall be known as ...... "Sam Adams" Just kidding. RCE Nice to meet you, Mr. RCE. You started with one of them fancy high-powered 286's of which I could only dream! I started with the 8086 xt and a 20, yes 20, MB HDD. I loved my DOS; I didn't understand why people needed all that Mac and Windows nonsense. DOS: just tell your computer what to do and it did it! Simple as that. Remember when the excitement of opening a gif meant starting the process and coming back after dinner to see if the gif had finished filling in all the pixels? I actually started with an Apple (was it IIC?), encountered a mac in grad school, and switched to the DOS world when I couldn't find a mac program that could handle the graphical representation (believe it or not) of my lab data. Boy that was a long time ago! It is. My super fast "Pal" 286 even ran CADD 1, an early cad design program. CADD was developed through version 6 as a DOS only program then was bought out by Autodesk (Autocad). CADD was recently re-introduced in a Windows version and I just downloaded a copy. It's like old times. The Pal had a normal clock speed of 8 mhz, but had a "turbo" button that, when pushed, took it to a lightning fast 13 mhz. RCE I started out on the Internet with a DEC PDP. Probably an 11/05 but maybe an 11/34. Still have a great spicy peanut noodle recipe printed on dot matrix printer. When it was a text only world. Except for ascii art. I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my kids have no idea about the punch cards! I started out with a commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem on a service called Quantum Link (Q-Link) for short. I think it evolved into AOL. My "handle was Fredo5. Our family used to have a lot of fun on Sat night with the Music Oldies Trivia contest hosted in the Q-Link chat rooms. Back then if you won a MOT contest you got a couple of free hours of service and if you hosted a game you would get 4 hours of free service credited to your account. |
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"FREDO" wrote in message . .. I started out with a commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem on a service called Quantum Link (Q-Link) for short. I think it evolved into AOL. My "handle was Fredo5. Our family used to have a lot of fun on Sat night with the Music Oldies Trivia contest hosted in the Q-Link chat rooms. Back then if you won a MOT contest you got a couple of free hours of service and if you hosted a game you would get 4 hours of free service credited to your account. I used to host a bulletin board/chat room on Prodigy for midi enthusiasts. For that, I received free Prodigy access. (still have the ID number taped to the old Yamaha keyboard). We used to composes songs by passing the files around to different participants and each would add a track to the composition. Great fun, but slow. Some of the music was very good by the time it was done and edited. RCE |
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... almost actually. there was a lot of interest in the ham community with tcp/ip and a lot of hams were working for dec, data general and ibm at the time. plus we were very close to mit and bolt, beranek and newman where there were a lot of hams and the flow of information was incredible - it was hard to keep advances in digital communications a big secret in those days. as soon as somebody had a new product or new approach to a problem, everybody else knew it within 24 to 36 hours - thus, the forced product cycle was amazing. Certainly the concept of digital communications has been around for much longer than computers or the Internet. Morse code is a form of digital communications. I used to work on teletype machines using tape readers to send messages at 100 wpm using FSK (frequency shift keying) modes on the transmitters. All digital. In fact, teletype was 8 bit. A start bit, six information bits and a stop bit for each "word". Basically 50's technology. RCE |
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I used to host a bulletin board/chat room on Prodigy for midi enthusiasts.
For that, I received free Prodigy access. (still have the ID number taped to the old Yamaha keyboard). We used to composes songs by passing the files around to different participants and each would add a track to the composition. Great fun, but slow. Some of the music was very good by the time it was done and edited. Shortwave Sportfishing wrote: you wouldnt want to share a few of those files would you? I was just about to say the same thing. DSK |
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