I know I've come late to this thread - but my first was a couple of logarithmic potentiometers and a meter - analogue computing at it simplest - but it worked and provided the battery was not going flat remarkably accurate - at least as good as the slide rules we all had at that time. - eh! what where did I put my hearing aid...
db > -----Original Message----- > From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 04 March 2003 23:38 > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing > > > Well - lets see: > > Does older win this contest :-) > > My first computing experience was in high school. We had a room in > the science lab with an old IBM computer - I think at one time it > was the state of the art mainframe. But you would program with > toggle switches, and you could save your program to rolls of punch > paper. If the paper role tore or got bent you were out of luck. > > Anyone wanna guess how long ago that was. > > LOL > > -----Original Message----- > From: Clement, Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing > > > > I wrote the first design patterns using sticks and stones. > Facade was easy. > Iterator was hard and took up a lot of rocks. > > :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: awc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:02 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing > > > TI-994A - which could generate tow tones same time. very cool machine. > > .anil > > James Childers wrote: > > > My first experience with programming was on a TI-994A. Had 4K RAM, I > think, and no storage. Yes, you heard me right: no storage. Not a floppy. I > would write a program and as soon as I turned the computer off it was gone > forever. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
