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Postby CBBB » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:43 pm

Get Real! wrote:
CBBB wrote:I like all this talk about modern computing. When I was a lad using an Elliot 803B with 8K of memory, no disks, and the input and output was on paper tape, we had it tough!

These young people today...........!

Problem with your story is that when computers were using punched tape for output, they were not affordable to the average home user and very few companies could afford or needed to have one… :roll:


Well it was a second hand one that used to belong Shell, it filled a very large room and the college had a full time operator for it.
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Postby Get Real! » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:46 pm

CBBB wrote:
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CBBB wrote:I like all this talk about modern computing. When I was a lad using an Elliot 803B with 8K of memory, no disks, and the input and output was on paper tape, we had it tough!

These young people today...........!

Problem with your story is that when computers were using punched tape for output, they were not affordable to the average home user and very few companies could afford or needed to have one… :roll:


Well it was a second hand one that used to belong Shell, it filled a very large room and the college had a full time operator for it.

Next! :roll:
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Postby CBBB » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:47 pm

Get Real! wrote:
CBBB wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
CBBB wrote:I like all this talk about modern computing. When I was a lad using an Elliot 803B with 8K of memory, no disks, and the input and output was on paper tape, we had it tough!

These young people today...........!

Problem with your story is that when computers were using punched tape for output, they were not affordable to the average home user and very few companies could afford or needed to have one… :roll:


Well it was a second hand one that used to belong Shell, it filled a very large room and the college had a full time operator for it.

Next! :roll:


IBM 360/65?
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Postby Get Real! » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:50 pm

CBBB wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
CBBB wrote:
Get Real! wrote:
CBBB wrote:I like all this talk about modern computing. When I was a lad using an Elliot 803B with 8K of memory, no disks, and the input and output was on paper tape, we had it tough!

These young people today...........!

Problem with your story is that when computers were using punched tape for output, they were not affordable to the average home user and very few companies could afford or needed to have one… :roll:


Well it was a second hand one that used to belong Shell, it filled a very large room and the college had a full time operator for it.

Next! :roll:


IBM 360/65?

I thought it was an Elliot 803B... :roll:

Next!
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Postby Me Ed » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:13 pm

MS-DOS 4.1 was the worse of the bunch if I recall as it used too much convetional memory.

Was it Bill Gates that said he could not believe anyone would ever need any more than 640K?????
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Postby Nikitas » Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:33 am

Computer power for its own sake does not impress. If you make your iving producing saleable thought you want a machine that turns ON, no boot routine, with long battery life, durable, tough, portable. Which explains why professional writers turn to school grade Alphasmart Neos. On the old DOS you could fit a year's work on one diskette, now you need oodles of memory to do the same thing.
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Postby Get Real! » Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:39 am

Nikitas wrote:Computer power for its own sake does not impress. If you make your iving producing saleable thought you want a machine that turns ON, no boot routine, with long battery life, durable, tough, portable. Which explains why professional writers turn to school grade Alphasmart Neos. On the old DOS you could fit a year's work on one diskette, now you need oodles of memory to do the same thing.

Is that basically a word processor?
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Postby Oracle » Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:47 am

I wrote up my Ph.D, hubby's Ph.D, two friends' Ph.Ds, a few students final year projects and some research papers all on an Amstrad PCW 8256 which I bought for £160 and then sold for £200. But, I still can't figure out how the darned thing ticked :?
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Postby Get Real! » Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:51 am

Oracle wrote:I wrote up my Ph.D, hubby's Ph.D, two friends' Ph.Ds, a few students final year projects and some research papers all on an Amstrad PCW 8256 which I bought for £160 and then sold for £200. But, I still can't figure out how the darned thing ticked :?

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Postby Oracle » Wed Jun 30, 2010 12:59 am

Get Real! wrote:
Oracle wrote:I wrote up my Ph.D, hubby's Ph.D, two friends' Ph.Ds, a few students final year projects and some research papers all on an Amstrad PCW 8256 which I bought for £160 and then sold for £200. But, I still can't figure out how the darned thing ticked :?

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Creationist myths :roll:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/nov/30/uknews
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