Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

Yes, in 1965-66 as an undergraduate I took a computer course at NYU which comprised learned to program (entry level, PL-1) and my assigned project was writing a routine to alphabetize a list of names including all variants (multiple first, middle names, hyphenated, with degrees, etc.) ...which

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

On Dec 26, 2009, at 12:04 PM, rleesimon wrote: Yes, in 1965-66 as an undergraduate I took a computer course at NYU which comprised learned to program (entry level, PL-1)... PL1, wow that was my programming language of choice for may years. The horrible input was standing around waiting to

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

It always struck me that any attempt to alphabetize names, especially ones that were written full (so that the machine had to determine what part of the seven-word name was the last (family) name, and what part was the middle name, etc.) would be doomed to failure. I just used an extra column

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

The old days?? The old days were when an IBM 7094 (the powerhouse of its day) filled a room with a raised floor, dedicated air conditioning, and a crew of operators, cost megabucks to buy (or lease) and maintain, had a cycle time measured in microseconds, and a maximum memory capacity

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

Rosenberg, Alan [USA] The old days?? The old days were when an IBM 7094 (the powerhouse of its day) filled a room with a raised floor, dedicated air conditioning, and a crew of operators, cost megabucks to buy (or lease) and maintain, had a cycle time measured in microseconds, and a maximum

[CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

Our first computer was an Apple II which we upgraded to 64k of ram and added an '80 column patch. Had twin (external) 5 1/4 floppy drives and also could write to cassette tape. This was a few years before the Macintosh and long before Windows. By the way, we Still have the Apple II.

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My wife was working for a company that had ported its database to the IBM PC. So we got a loan from the credit union and bought a PC for $5,000. It had: - 10 MB HD (but we saved money by adding one to a PC, not by buying an XT) - 640K of RAM (maxed out, and more than $1000 of the price was

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

Ridiculous isn't it what we spent in those days. My dad got his ATT 6300 through work (ATT) Nice thing about it was the integrated graphics and monitor it came with. I kept that computer for a long time. Eventually upgraded to a 486SX. Then started building all of my own. Stewart At

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I got to work on the original 128K MacIntosh under System 1. My favorite app was the font editor. On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Stewart Marshall revsamarsh...@earthlink.net wrote: Ridiculous isn't it what we spent in those days. My dad got his ATT 6300 through work (ATT) Nice thing

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

At work, we had a nice lab. An Apple Lisa (got the Mac when it came out later), Amiga (already did graphics and true pre-emptive multitasking), then one of the first IBM PCs. I don't know how much that cost, but it had *two* cases. A *huge* cable connected the two, and there was an additional

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

one of the first IBM PCs. I don't know how much that cost, but it had *two* cases. A *huge* cable connected the two, and there was an additional hard disk in the second one. That was an expansion box. It had additional slots and a second HD. Not part of the PC, purchased separately. The

[CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

I think my first computer had a 250MB hard drive. I don't remember how much ram. At work we were wowed when the CAD guy got a 500MB and then a 1 Gig hard drive. I had been using DOS a lot at work for CNC machine programming and thought it was kind of fun. I found Windows 3.0 pretty

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My first PC (not commodore) had dual 5.25 floppies no HD. My first HD was a 30 MB Hardcard (fit into a full size slot) I paid over $300 for it. The most expensive HD I ever bought. Stewart At 06:49 PM 12/22/2009, you wrote: I think my first computer had a 250MB hard drive. I don't

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Of Rev. Stewart Marshall Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:05 PM To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM Subject: Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days My first PC (not commodore) had dual 5.25 floppies no HD. My first HD was a 30 MB Hardcard (fit into a full size slot) I paid over $300

Re: [CGUYS] AAAHH, the old days

I came into computers rather late. I graduated from Seminary (graduate school) in 82 and the only computers then were very rudimentary. I got a Commodore 64 in 84. I did not get my first PC till 86. The commodore had 64K memory and I started with a cassette tape drive. I remember typing in