We had the reel to reel system on my submarine, used by sonar. Was the coolest, temperature, place on the boat.?
On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 15:19 Kevin Walker < sage@...> wrote: Anyone remember the large reel to reel tapes that where?maybe 3/4" or 1" in width that dropped down from the reels for processing?
There were also the metal drums and later after that the ticker tape I remember seeing when my dad was early into his programming days in the 60s or was it early 70s IIRC.
My first computer I owned outside of home was a Mac Plus and oh the joy of finally affording a 20MB hard drive over swapping those 3.5" disks.? :)
Kevin
On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via <lordhay= [email protected]> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games. Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games. A great computer game company now sadly gone ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? ? First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"? And the last. I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯. ? I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes. ? And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ? ? Doug ? ? 8", 5.25" or 3". ? On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote: Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks. On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote: 12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean. And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet. On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote: If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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"The 'Good Good Days' were terrible days, I hope they never come again!"?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?- Uncle Bill
That would be the IBM3420 tape drive. I remember those.... I also remember the IBM MSS storage unit - bullet like tape cartridges...
I¡¯d like to say happy days, but...?
Tim
On 30 Jun 2020, at 20:19, Kevin Walker < sage@...> wrote: ? Anyone remember the large reel to reel tapes that where?maybe 3/4" or 1" in width that dropped down from the reels for processing?
There were also the metal drums and later after that the ticker tape I remember seeing when my dad was early into his programming days in the 60s or was it early 70s IIRC.
My first computer I owned outside of home was a Mac Plus and oh the joy of finally affording a 20MB hard drive over swapping those 3.5" disks.? :)
Kevin
On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via <lordhay= [email protected]> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games. Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games. A great computer game company now sadly gone ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? ? First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"? And the last. I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯. ? I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes. ? And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ? ? Doug ? ? 8", 5.25" or 3". ? On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote: Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks. On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote: 12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean. And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet. On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote: If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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That would be the IBM3420 tape drive. I remember those.... I also remember the IBM MSS storage unit - bullet like tape cartridges...
I¡¯d like to say happy days, but...?
Tim
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On 30 Jun 2020, at 20:19, Kevin Walker <sage@...> wrote: ? Anyone remember the large reel to reel tapes that where?maybe 3/4" or 1" in width that dropped down from the reels for processing?
There were also the metal drums and later after that the ticker tape I remember seeing when my dad was early into his programming days in the 60s or was it early 70s IIRC.
My first computer I owned outside of home was a Mac Plus and oh the joy of finally affording a 20MB hard drive over swapping those 3.5" disks.? :)
Kevin
On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via <lordhay= [email protected]> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games. Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games. A great computer game company now sadly gone ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? ? First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"? And the last. I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯. ? I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes. ? And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ? ? Doug ? ? 8", 5.25" or 3". ? On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote: Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks. On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote: 12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean. And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet. On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote: If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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We had that at Cavendish Grammar, it dialled into the Hatfield college mainframe. We played four pawn chess on it ? Sent from for Windows 10 ?
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From: John HainesSent: 30 June 2020 20:14 To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [TooFatLardies] Infamy ? In about 1971 (I was 16) my school got a teletype terminal to a remote mainframe. It had twin paper tape reader/writers. The real geeks could edit the tape without referring to the manual.
John
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A fanatical dedication...?
It takes skill and dedication, that's for sure. Although I do find myself wondering how easy it is to actually climb on top?of a spray can with your flippers stuck together....
Thomas? You're not that bad.....
"and", Jeremy, the word you're looking for is "and".
The trouble is this is Thomas we're talking about. He's just as likely to sit on a hot glue gun or a tube of superglue. :-)
Now this is an idea I can work with! Den tis 30 juni 2020 13:23Mike Whitaker < mike@...> skrev: Nah, he just needs to set the can up pointing at the workpiece and bounce his little feathery butt on the spray button.?
It is, after all, hard for a penguin to hold a brush in his flippers... Or a spray can... ??
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Anyone remember the large reel to reel tapes that where?maybe 3/4" or 1" in width that dropped down from the reels for processing?
There were also the metal drums and later after that the ticker tape I remember seeing when my dad was early into his programming days in the 60s or was it early 70s IIRC.
My first computer I owned outside of home was a Mac Plus and oh the joy of finally affording a 20MB hard drive over swapping those 3.5" disks.? :)
Kevin
On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via <lordhay= [email protected]> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games. Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games. A great computer game company now sadly gone ? Sent from for Windows 10 ? ? First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"? And the last. I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯. ? I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes. ? And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ? ? Doug ? ? 8", 5.25" or 3". ? On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote: Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks. On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote: 12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean. And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet. On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote: If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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In about 1971 (I was 16) my school got a teletype terminal to a remote mainframe. It had twin paper tape reader/writers. The real geeks could edit the tape without referring to the manual.
John
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On the TRS80 did you have the Dancing Demon? When I started with ICL in the 1970sw they were just moving on from the 1900 to the 2900 series mainframes. I used to punch my test program instructions onto paper tape so that I could run them multiple times. 200mbye hard disks and 8" singe sided simgle density floppt discs with 1/4 mbyte to run the word processing software on a 7502. We needed 2mByte memory on the mainframe to load the operating system.
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 19:11:37 BST, Gary Keep via groups.io <lordhay@...> wrote:
I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games. Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games. A great computer game company now sadly gone ? Sent from for Windows 10 ?
From: Thomas NissvikSent: 30 June 2020 19:02 To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [TooFatLardies] Infamy ? First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"? And the last. I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯. ? I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes. ? And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ? ? Doug ? ? 8", 5.25" or 3". ? On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote: Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks. On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote: 12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean. And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet. On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote: If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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Thats where I first played the mainframe Star Trek during my shifts ? Sent from for Windows 10 ?
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From: Carole FlintSent: 30 June 2020 19:09 To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [TooFatLardies] Infamy ? When I first started working as a computer operator, in what was then called Data Processing, in the late 1970s the smaller IBM S/370 mainframes (the 115 and 125 models only, I think) had their IPL microcode on 12" floppy disks. You always needed to have a spare in case the one you usually IPLed from had a read error. There was a small cupboard thing under the CPU console printer where the floppy drive was located.
Carole
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I remember fiddling with the volume and tone on my cassette player to load TRS80 Games. Then the wonderful Atari ST1040 came along with floppy drives, perfect for the SSI games. A great computer game company now sadly gone ? Sent from for Windows 10 ?
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From: Thomas NissvikSent: 30 June 2020 19:02 To: [email protected]Subject: Re: [TooFatLardies] Infamy ? First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"? And the last. I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯. ? I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better than tape cassettes. ? And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there. ? ? Doug ? ? 8", 5.25" or 3". ? On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote: Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks. On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote: 12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean. And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet. On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via <don.avis@...> wrote: If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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When I first started working as a computer operator, in what was then called Data Processing, in the late 1970s the smaller IBM S/370 mainframes (the 115 and 125 models only, I think) had their IPL microcode on 12" floppy disks. You always needed to have a spare in case the one you usually IPLed from had a read error. There was a small cupboard thing under the CPU console printer where the floppy drive was located.
Carole
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First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"?
I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment
something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯.
?
I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better
than tape cassettes.
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And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there.
?
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Doug
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8", 5.25" or 3".
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On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote:
Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks.
On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote:
12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean.
And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet.
On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via
<don.avis@...> wrote:
If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at?
sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There
has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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I was digging around in some old junk yesterday and came across a 3.5¡± floppy, which I showed to my 20 year old nephew. He at least didn¡¯t comment
something along the lines of ¨C ¡®cool, someone 3d printed the save icon¡¯.
?
I remember with the 5.25¡± ones you could get double duty out of them by clipping the case and turning them over. Not reliable but a damn sight better
than tape cassettes.
?
And the college was still showing the use of punch cards when I started there.
?
?
Doug
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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Chris Gilbride
Sent: 30 June 2020 16:42
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TooFatLardies] Infamy
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8", 5.25" or 3".
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On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett wrote:
Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy disks.
On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs wrote:
12gb, no wonder there are issues! 12mb you mean.
And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered a copy yet.
On 30/06/2020 12:56:17, don.avis via groups.io
<don.avis@...> wrote:
If yours still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at?
sales@...?and he will sort it for you.??There
has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file size is over 12GB
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8", 5.25" or 3".
On 30/06/2020 14:16, Peter Mellett
wrote:
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Mine was 12TB, I had it delivered on a lorry full of floppy
disks.
On 30/06/2020 12:58, Fredd Bloggs
wrote:
12gb, no wonder there
are issues! 12mb you mean.
And mine has not arrived, but then.... I have not ordered
a copy yet.
On 30/06/2020
12:56:17, don.avis via groups.io <don.avis@...>
wrote:
If yours
still hasn't arrived email Richard Clarke at? sales@...?and
he will sort it for you. ??There
has been an issue with some EMails bouncing as the file
size is over 12GB
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Re: [TMP] [TMP] Welcoming so many new members!
We are all individuals??
I'm not!
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Re: How long before we all go goofy...or goofier as it is.
I wrote some mods to use 9YW armies based for FOG:R a few years ago. It is in one of the specials, Summer 2016 one I think, but it is a big change from basic SP. I've revised them since and I sent Rich a copy last year.
Carole
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It is BIG though!
What's the difference between a G and a B anyway ?
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If you don't know about climbing on top of spray cans with flippers glued together you have clearly never worked in A&E
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It takes skill and dedication, that's for sure.
Although I do find myself wondering how easy it is to actually climb on top?of a spray can with your flippers stuck together....
Thomas? You're not that bad.....
"and", Jeremy, the word you're looking for is "and".
The trouble is this is Thomas we're talking about. He's just as likely to sit on a hot glue gun or a tube of superglue. :-)
Now this is an idea I can work with! Den tis 30 juni 2020 13:23Mike Whitaker < mike@...> skrev: Nah, he just needs to set the can up pointing at the workpiece and bounce his little feathery butt on the spray button.?
It is, after all, hard for a penguin to hold a brush in his flippers... Or a spray can... ??
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Penguin Koen
John Haines
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