Let's Have a Funny Pic Thread! Mk XII

[tiger roach]

This update is going to take a while...

For those of you in the Fourth World, where things are really tough - we realize that the kerosene-powered desktop computer is not an efficient device.

 

[mongooz]

For those of you in the Fourth World, where things are really tough - we realize that the kerosene-powered desktop computer is not an efficient device.

and not terribly safe, indoors

 

[shoeless]

Disk 1 of 3711. It'd really suck to get to about disk 3650 and realize you've misplaced disk 3651.

 

[mongooz]

Disk 1 of 3711. It'd really suck to get to about disk 3650 and realize you've misplaced disk 3651.

or that you get that "not sufficient memory to copy disc"

 

[OGG]

You damned kids and your fancy shmancy double sided, double density 3.5" Floppy Disks. In my day, we had a Radio Shack tape recorder to store and load data on, and we liked it!

First time I saw a 5 1/4" floppy I nearly pissed myself with excitement.

 

[mongooz]

one of my first (civilian) computer required TWO 5.25 floppy disks.....one for the program and one for the data. the computer itself had NO memory.

 

[GomezAddams]

The first computer I ever saw used ferrite beads to store ones and zeros for main memory (8k bytes), and a model 33 teletype with a paper tape reader/punch for program storage. The teletype transferred data at a whopping 110 baud. Booting the OS from paper tape took 20 minutes.

Oh, and it had no ROM. You had to enter the paper tape bootstrap loader by toggling in a couple of dozen instructions on the front panel.

 

[mongooz]

The first computer I ever saw used ferrite beads to store ones and zeros for main memory (8k bytes), and a model 33 teletype with a paper tape reader/punch for program storage. The teletype transferred data at a whopping 110 baud. Booting the OS from paper tape took 20 minutes.

Oh, and it had no ROM. You had to enter the paper tape bootstrap loader by toggling in a couple of dozen instructions on the front panel.

the first computer i worked on was a giant Burroughs that stored data on IBM punch cards. we had some nearly room tall reel to reel tape drives that were brand new.
like this one.

 

[PunkKitty]

the first computer i worked on was a giant Burroughs that stored data on IBM punch cards. we had some nearly room tall reel to reel tape drives that were brand new.
like this one.

I scare people when I tell them that I learned to program using punch cards.

 

[tiger roach]

Those punch cards were bullshit man. I'd be waiting in line to run my stack through the reader, thinking how I was gonna ace the assignment. Then I look behind me and there is some grad student with two shoe boxes full of cards, giving me that condescending little smirk.

 

[wagdog]

Kids. My first computer required a hammer, chisel and rock slates for input.

 

[mongooz]

Kids. My first computer required a hammer, chisel and rock slates for input.

did you work near a burning bush on top of a mountain?

 

[bsman]

Here's my first computer:

Seriously, though -- I got one of these as my first computer:

I used it to generate D&D characters... :run:

 

[335clone]

Well since we are listing our 'firsts'

Meet the DEC PDP-9

and the software

 

[Tiltsta]

Here's my first computer:

Seriously, though -- I got one of these as my first computer:

I used it to generate D&D characters... :run:

ha! I had a Timex Sinclair too. I also wrote a D&D character random generator program. My kids think it is hilarious that to do something fun with a computer, you had to go to the library and get a book of programs, enter the program from the book into the computer line by line, debug your work, and THEN
you could play a game. If you were lucky, you could back up that effort to audio cassette tape and use it later.

 

[Theodore]

 

[Stratguy]

Ahhh, my first computer was the Commodore 64

With the state of the art . . . cassette drive.

 

[Tiltsta]

 

[mikesr1963]

 

[Tig]

We still had IBM card readers in Mission Control in the late 80's.

My first was a ModComp mainframe. It had 64K of RAM! We used it to record up to 256 channels of data, specifically manned test chamber data in the Crew Systems Lab (JSC Bldg. 7 for NASA junkies)