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MIGHTY DEEP STUPID THREAD VI

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    ...for some reason I now really feel old.
  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    ...for some reason I now really feel old.
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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    Wow, that is old

    Technology ages fast cho, it's all good.

    *Whispers - Frank, watch out, she got a club man :-P

  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    It isn't my fault....

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  • SpyroRueSpyroRue Posts: 5,020
    edited December 1969

    HAHA! I like that :cheese:

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    It isn't my fault....
    Good one Me likes.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036
    edited January 2013

    ...this is the kind of stuff I cut my "programming teeth" on back in my early college days.

    Had to edit this a couple times because the stupid site software kept mixing up the order of the images from the original sequence I attached them in.

    NEC Tape Punch

    Burroughs 6700 (with a whopping 6MB system memory)

    Digital Decwriter (these were the terminals we used)

    IBM Keypunch

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  • atticanneatticanne Posts: 3,009
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    tjohn said:
    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    OK I'm mystified. What is that?

    It's a National Ledger Posting Machine. I did bought and sold ledger of Forward contracts for the Foreign Currency dealing room in a major Bank in the City (London)

    In use at Center Finance, Ft. Bliss TX, in the sixties.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,202
    edited January 2013

    where are the stupid gift cards!!!
    I had to look like a tightarse thanking someone because I cannot find them! :red:
    http://www.daz3d.com/gift-card not found!!

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    ...this is the kind of stuff I cut my "programming teeth" on back in my early college days.

    Had to edit this a couple times because the stupid site software kept mixing up the order of the images from the original sequence I attached them in.

    NEC Tape Punch

    Burroughs 6700 (with a whopping 6MB system memory)

    Digital Decwriter (these were the terminals we used)

    IBM Keypunch


    My Brother would recognize most of these. He ran the Computer Center at the University we attended when he was a Grad student about 1969-1973. He was an Electrical Engineer and I was a Biology major. I was fascinated by the stacks of punch cards stacked carefully in boxes by nervous Engineering underclassmen/women who would sometimes scream in agony when they found out that the Computer had eaten one of their cards. That meant that they would have to find the missing card, re-punch it, move to the end of the queue and wait to see if their program would make it though the gauntlet. They whispered arcane words like "COBOL" and "FORTRAN" and looked as if they had'nt slept for days.
  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,036
    edited December 1969

    ...yep, those were heady days when we spoke in mysterious words.


    Couldn't help but snicker back in the late 70s when the original Battlestar Galactica aired. Most of my fellow students in the telly room at the college couldn't understand why I found it so humourous when the characters referred to their "ancient ones".

  • Norse GraphicsNorse Graphics Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Jaderail said:
    Kulay Wolf said:
    chohole said:
    How could we ever have worked, back in the day, without an ANY key :roll:

    I do not have an any key on my keyboard. Bummer

    Here ya go I haz a few extra....

    I wonder if Any Key was Anakin's pet name, and he got peed off because he was pushed around all the time...

  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,462
    edited December 1969

    punch cards, magnetic tape reels, DEC terminals, sneaker net, 300 Baud Modems.. things sure have changed.

    now y'all get ready to take your red pills..

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  • Norse GraphicsNorse Graphics Posts: 0
    edited January 2013

    chohole said:
    Even more of a blast from the past. I started my working life using one of these.

    What's that? A manual copying machine?

    Edit. National Ledger Posting Machine you said? :red:

    Post edited by Norse Graphics on
  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,462
    edited December 1969

    backing up my DAZ content folders, 14gb...

    this should be fun.

  • Norse GraphicsNorse Graphics Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Times have changed.... Extrapolate from this graph and calculating the price of memory in 2020:
    Roughly $0.000001pr. MB (or $1 pr. TB) [small drives] ---- $0.0001 pr. MB ($100 pr. Terabyte) [other types]


    Not sure if I'm calculating correctly... :bug:

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  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,462
    edited December 1969

    Norse Graphics said:
    Times have changed.... Extrapolate from this graph and calculating the price of memory in 2020:
    Roughly $0.000001pr. MB (or $1 pr. TB) [small drives] ---- $0.0001 pr. MB ($100 pr. Terabyte) [other types]


    Not sure if I'm calculating correctly... :bug:


    considering I have a 2TB drive now, I figure in 7 years it will be 20TB or 200TB

    (and the windows install will exceed the space of a double layer DVD)

  • Norse GraphicsNorse Graphics Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071105112323AAuBVWK

    ....then the total information storage capacity of the synapses in the cortex would be of the order of 500 to 1,000 terabytes.

    We're getting there...

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    Not stupid enough in here.

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    OK point taken

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    chohole said:
    OK point taken

    He he! :lol:
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,095
    edited December 1969

    OK I get that this is one of the coolest collectibles EVER, but 4.2 million? I would rather have the money, but then, I am not insanely wealthy. :)
    http://news.yahoo.com/original-batmobile-tv-series-sells-044458359.html

  • Harry DresdenHarry Dresden Posts: 376
    edited December 1969

    Anyone still remember these?

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    wouldn't ya love to come home and find this

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  • RarethRareth Posts: 1,462
    edited December 1969

    Frank0314 said:
    wouldn't ya love to come home and find this

    I suspect its a trend.

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    Rareth said:
    Frank0314 said:
    wouldn't ya love to come home and find this

    I suspect its a trend.

    ROFL!!

  • JaderailJaderail Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    I'm not going to look, I'm not going to look...

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    That looks like my 3 cats when they are hiding from a hairball after I step on it

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited December 1969

    This cat is just hanging around,......................................................or is it drying out after a play in the snow ?

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  • frank0314frank0314 Posts: 14,048
    edited December 1969

    Here is our dog to a tee.

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