Roy,
I wonder how many times the station went dead because of a BSOD?
jcj
Roy Vestal wrote:
Heh, in the early 90's, I was a "board op" on the weekends at a local
AM station. The owner's brother him setup a 386 based PC running
*cough* Windows *cough* and a broadcast "suite" for automating the
boards. I helped him setup the communications (at a whopping 2400
baud) so he could connect from home and run the station.
Within a month I lost my job. :(
Stinking automation! ;)
J.C. Jones wrote:
Jim,
At least you have had the opportunity to get an "education" in
computers. What I have learned has been through necessity and I don't
do a very good job of learning.
The world of broadcast automation has changed drastically since I was
first exposed to it in the sixties.
I need to visit one of the local radio stations and see how they are
using automation, pc's, etc today. I am sure that it is nothing like
my days of radio and television.
jcj
Jim Ray wrote:
I was born in 1936 ( makes this an ancient guy story )
My first "personal" computer was the TI-99-4A. I could only afford the
unit, no disk drives of any sort. I make me a "cassette drive" using a
portable cassette recorder and wired up my own connecting cable.
Only programming language was a form of basic. Even a short program
would take over 30 minutes to load from cassette to "pc". I usually
loaded the program while I was eating supper. When I finished with my
meal, my computer would be waiting for me.
One of my first computers that I use in my work was a
mini-computer, 12
bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was
part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the
manufacturer's name for the computer.
jcj
[Jim Ray pontificates] you've got me beat by a quarter century :-)
no one
can say they've got more experience than the folks that have seen the
industry grow up around us. thank god/allah/[insert diety of the
day] we
woke up today.
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