RE: Ten thousand TRS 80s...
Well, if we really are in the business of "I started before you" then maybe I should get out my trump cards. I actually started on an ICL 1909 which was then upgraded to an ICL 1907. And YES it was an UPgrade in 1967. We didn't even have an operating system in those days, and wrote our own called COOP (Computer Operating). And if you are wondering about the size of my first machine - it has 32K words of memory (each word was 16 bits if my fading memory isn't misleading me) and the memory module alone was about 5 feet high by about 5 feet wide and about 3 feet deep. The processor was a similar size. I decided today to wax lyrical about computer careers and projects and came up with the following- Hopes and Dreams Plots and Schemes Fears and Dread System Dead. Now doesn't that sum up all computer products/projects? and even careers? Regards Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Ian Goddard Sent: 06 September 2008 10:47 To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Ten thousand TRS 80s... John wrote: > > Well just after they invented electricity we used these @ the high > school I went to... > > http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/asr33_2.jpg > > Uhhhh that would be about 1976....... man that makes me old!! No it doesn't. I started with ICL 1907 & punched cards about 1970 doing post-grad. -- Ian Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard at nildram co uk _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
On 8 Sep, 21:26, "malcolm.iiug" <mali...@btopenworld.com> wrote: > Well, if we really are in the business of "I started before you" then maybe > I should get out my trump cards. I actually started on an ICL 1909 which > was then upgraded to an ICL 1907. And YES it was an UPgrade in 1967. We > didn't even have an operating system in those days, and wrote our own called > COOP (Computer Operating). > And if you are wondering about the size of my first machine - it has 32K > words of memory (each word was 16 bits if my fading memory isn't misleading > me) and the memory module alone was about 5 feet high by about 5 feet wide > and about 3 feet deep. The processor was a similar size. > > I decided today to wax lyrical about computer careers and projects and came > up with the following- > > Hopes and Dreams > Plots and Schemes > Fears and Dread > System Dead. > > Now doesn't that sum up all computer products/projects? and even careers? > > Regards > > Malcolm > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: informix-list-boun...@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-boun...@iiug.org] > > On Behalf Of Ian Goddard > Sent: 06 September 2008 10:47 > To: informix-l...@iiug.org > Subject: Re: Ten thousand TRS 80s... > > John wrote: > > > Well just after they invented electricity we used these @ the high > > school I went to... > > >http://www.vintage-computer.com/images/asr33_2.jpg > > > Uhhhh that would be about 1976....... man that makes me old!! > > No it doesn't. I started with ICL 1907 & punched cards about 1970 doing > post-grad. > > -- > Ian > > Hotmail is for spammers. Real mail address is igoddard > at nildram co uk > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-l...@iiug.orghttp://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - At least Mark got several (new) people to reply...Hell, I haven't seen so many unique posters in a single thread for a while My first 'computer' was a Spectra-video 128. Had to be plugged into the TV. I reckon still that is more modern than the most posters had. This was early 80's. I miss the simpler times.
Snip > > At least Mark got several (new) people to reply...Hell, I haven't seen > so many unique posters in a single thread for a while > My first 'computer' was a Spectra-video 128. Had to be plugged into > the TV. I reckon still that is more modern than the most posters had. > This was early 80's. I miss the simpler times. > My first "Computer" was a Magnavox game console (Intelevision, I think it was called) that had a cartridge which allowed you to program 100 lines in assembler. It was almost passable for playing stick figure games, but worthless for anything else. Later I had two different Radio Shack color computers: a 4K original which I upgraded to 16 and then 32K, tape drive only. The only was the 64K version with a real color monitor a disk drive from which I ran OS-9 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9 ) and goodies like Pascal and Forth. --EEM >From the OS-9 manual: UNIX: An operating system similar to OS-9, but with less functionality and special features designed to soak up excess memory, disk space and CPU time on large, expensive computers.
On Sep 10, 3:07 pm, "Everett Mills" <eemi...@nationalbeef.com> wrote: > Snip > > > > > At least Mark got several (new) people to reply...Hell, I haven't seen > > so many unique posters in a single thread for a while > > My first 'computer' was a Spectra-video 128. Had to be plugged into > > the TV. I reckon still that is more modern than the most posters had. > > This was early 80's. I miss the simpler times. > > My first "Computer" was a Magnavox game console (Intelevision, I think > it was called) that had a cartridge which allowed you to program 100 > lines in assembler. It was almost passable for playing stick figure > games, but worthless for anything else. > > Later I had two different Radio Shack color computers: a 4K original > which I upgraded to 16 and then 32K, tape drive only. The only was the > 64K version with a real color monitor a disk drive from which I ran OS-9 > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS-9) and goodies like Pascal and Forth. > > --EEM > > >From the OS-9 manual: > > UNIX: > An operating system similar to OS-9, but with less functionality and > special features designed to soak up excess memory, disk space and CPU > time on large, expensive computers. SO - let's all meet at my place (Northeast Indiana, where EVERYONE wants to go) and build a "cluster of 100 IPODs running IDS 11.5"...whatcha think? (This used to be one of my better jokes when teaching or presenting). I've got a huge barn that we could stage the project in. And when it blows up, the barn is actually made of steel, so perhaps it would survive. I'll sequester the cats and dogs just in case. Mark Scranton Xtivia Inc. Informix 1995 - who knows mark.scranton@xtivia.com www.markscranton.com
Mark Scranton (Xtivia Inc.) wrote: > (This used to be one of my better jokes when > teaching or presenting). Probably for the best that you gave it up then. :o) -- Cheers, Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com