Remember when 80MB was a lot of space?
02-23-2010, 08:12 PM
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I sold my 16K Heathkit H89 a few years back on Ebay for $700. Horrible investment (I think I paid $1500 for it). I guess I should have bought some MSFT instead <G> (would have probably been worth MILLIONS of $$$ by now).
I can remember getting my first 300 baud modem. Was a shame because there was no one to call. I did the old war dialer thing just trying to connect with anyone. Was pretty interesting what you could get into back then.
I can remember getting my first 300 baud modem. Was a shame because there was no one to call. I did the old war dialer thing just trying to connect with anyone. Was pretty interesting what you could get into back then.
When I was in college we used 300 baud modems to compile COBOL... our PrimeOS mini didn't have a COBOL compiler so we used the "SuperWylber" at WSU.
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02-23-2010, 08:27 PM
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02-23-2010, 10:19 PM
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Ahhh 5.25 floppies. Joe and I are similar aged. He may be a couple years older. My first jobs were with SGI computers and I was a 3-D Modeler for real time flight simulation. I'm a long way from that now.... I plant seeds in the ground and harvest them in the fall.
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02-23-2010, 11:11 PM
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Kind of went the other way there didn't ya? I will soon start a career in the computer world soon (officially anyway) but I also do some planting and selling on the side in the summer. The highest and lowest (in a sense) of technology. Nice to be on both ends of the spectrum, purely man made, and nature.
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02-23-2010, 11:35 PM
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Kind of went the other way there didn't ya? I will soon start a career in the computer world soon (officially anyway) but I also do some planting and selling on the side in the summer. The highest and lowest (in a sense) of technology. Nice to be on both ends of the spectrum, purely man made, and nature.
I still have a contact at Flight Safety in STL and he says they would hire me anytime. I work a LOT, but it is a family based business and pays the bills. 4500 acres of row crop and 300 head of cattle.
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02-24-2010, 07:31 AM
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The 5 1/4s are there simply because everyone is too lazy to clean the shelf, not because they're being "displayed" for historical purposes.
What's worse than the old media is the fact that we still use some Fortran software that is 20+ years old. It's math heavy geodesy stuff that nobody has the time or desire to rewrite. It does some coordinate conversions and is only used once in a blue moon.
Frank
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