> On the matter of the interest of the younger generation, I had 25 years
> of teaching at the end of my career as a point of observation. I
> frequently went into stories to explain how things that I taught matter
>
>
> As I get older (71 this year) I wonder if there are really enough people
>
I hear you there!
I started out as a junior FE on the Univac 418 in 1971. Back then the
console was a modified TeleType and no problem seeing the characters as
the wove across the page at 10 cps!
Over my career, starting with 80x24 video terminals (VT05, VT52, VT100
and clones) I was excited
My first emulator was for the Coleco ADAM back in the 1990’s. I bought the
ADAM in 1984 and watched a community grow up around it in various locations
across Canada and the US. The ADAM-con conventions began in 1989 in
Orlando. Emulation began in the 1990’s as a response to the continued
interest
Don't get your mind get old. It’s a choice.
My mind is fine, it the eyes that are going.
Screens are getting bigger and text is getting smaller.
I must be dreaming that.
On 2024-05-19 9:14 a.m., Tarek Hoteit via cctalk wrote:
A friend of a friend had a birthday gathering. Everyone there was in their
thirties, except for myself, my wife, and our friend. Anyway, I met a Google
engineer, a Microsoft data scientist, an Amazon AWS recruiter (I think she was
a
On Sun, 19 May 2024, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color
Computer) that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have
easily available composite video, even internally, only modulated RF
output. Currently I have an old CRT TV
I suppose this makes a good point for me to jump in with my 20
milli-dollarsworth. To establish context, I'm in the middle to upper part of
the age rangeat 62. My first contact with a computer was my cousin's Altair
around '76or '77. The first exposure to information about computing were a
You're right in that the IBM unit record batch EAM stuff is mainly
'only' interesting in a historical sense (although ISTR that there
were a (very) few games that you could play on them); they evolved
into the mainframes we know and love.
I find them interesting from a 'system' PoV: when you're
> On May 19, 2024, at 11:14 AM, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> A friend of a friend had a birthday gathering. Everyone there was in their
> thirties, except for myself, my wife, and our friend. Anyway, I met a Google
> engineer, a Microsoft data scientist, an Amazon AWS recruiter (I
But, Bill, maybe you did influence at least one student or more when you
showed them the PDP or VAX. Perhaps we don't know who, but we have to keep
believing that we are influencing someone somewhere. The fact that you are 73
(Jon also said he is in his 70s) and your passion is rock solid is
In my post about the accounting machine era I forgot to mention that
of course they were all programmable; the mechanical versions used
different length pins, sometimes custom made with a special tool, that
went into a 'magazine' to define the various columns and the
operations to be performed
On 5/19/24 10:57, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
I am seeing this hobby growing beyond my own expectations, and a lot of
younger people are coming into it.
Yes, I have been to two Vintage Computer Fests at the
Chicago location. Most of the people there are fairly
young. There are some
On 5/19/2024 11:14 AM, Tarek Hoteit via cctalk wrote:
A friend of a friend had a birthday gathering. Everyone there was in their
thirties, except for myself, my wife, and our friend. Anyway, I met a Google
engineer, a Microsoft data scientist, an Amazon AWS recruiter (I think she was
a
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 9:13 AM Mike Stein via cctalk
wrote:
> What I find a little sad is that the accounting machine world has been
> almost entirely ignored.
>
> The punched card batch processing systems such as IBM's 402/403/407
> machines and peripherals are documented and even still in
Well my interest in computers started in my teens. I liked tinkering
with hardware and playing with OSes, but growing up in the 2000's, the
technology landscape had already "stagnated" into PC dominance. I
suppose there's only so much messing with Linux and other FOSS operating
systems you can
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 8:56 AM Tarek Hoteit via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Thank you, Josh. How did your passion start with classical computers?
> Maybe this helps in understanding the generation?
>
> Regards,
> Tarek Hoteit
>
I was 26 when I joined the list in 1997. I was a
What I find a little sad is that the accounting machine world has been
almost entirely ignored.
The punched card batch processing systems such as IBM's 402/403/407
machines and peripherals are documented and even still in existence here
and there, but the manual entry machines that could once be
How much did you know about tub files or Telex exchanges at their age? Same
deal.
You know about it because you were there, and you’re confusing knowledge of a
specific era with knowledge of the era immediately prior to one’s own.
Will people who weren’t alive for the computers of the 80s
I am seeing this hobby growing beyond my own expectations, and a lot of
younger people are coming into it. Many people in their teens and twenties
are newly discovering the 8-bit computers with which I grew up. I had no
concept of computer history until I fell into the hobby, and was fascinated
Thank you, Josh. How did your passion start with classical computers? Maybe
this helps in understanding the generation?
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit
> On May 19, 2024, at 08:39, Joshua Rice via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> Younger folk are indeed more ignorant of where technology came from, but i
>
Younger folk are indeed more ignorant of where technology came from, but
i wouldn't say all of them are. I'm 32 years young and, well, i'm
posting this email on the mailing list, so that probably says enough.
Sure, the pool of those interested in old computer tech might be smaller
nowadays
A friend of a friend had a birthday gathering. Everyone there was in their
thirties, except for myself, my wife, and our friend. Anyway, I met a Google
engineer, a Microsoft data scientist, an Amazon AWS recruiter (I think she was
a recruiter), and a few others in tech who are friends with the
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 06:59:50AM -0500, Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
> I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color Computer)
> that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily available
> composite video, even internally, only modulated RF output.
My personal experience with DTV boxes (and I do have a small assortment I use
routinely), is that the analog pass-through only functions with the box off (RF
in->RF out), so no chance of A/V extraction in that case. The majority of newer
boxes have eliminated the pass-through option entirely.
> On 05/19/2024 8:50 AM CDT Henry Bent via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, May 19, 2024, 08:08 Will Cooke via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> > I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color
> > Computer) that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily
> > available
On Sun, May 19, 2024, 08:08 Will Cooke via cctalk
wrote:
> I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color
> Computer) that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily
> available composite video, even internally, only modulated RF output.
> Currently I have
I presume the "digitial tv converter boxes" will pass through an analog signal,
and suspect at least some of them provide a composite output.
--Carey
> On 05/19/2024 6:59 AM CDT Will Cooke via cctalk wrote:
>
>
> I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color Computer)
I have a couple of 70s/80s "home" computers (e.g. Radio Shack Color Computer)
that are intended to connect to a TV set. They don't have easily available
composite video, even internally, only modulated RF output. Currently I have an
old CRT TV that I use with them, but for various reasons that
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