Re: Infamy
We had the reel to reel system on my submarine, used by sonar. Was the
coolest, temperature, place on the boat.
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Jon Yuengling
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Re: Infamy
"The 'Good Good Days' were terrible days, I hope they never come again!"
- Uncle Bill
Den tis 30 juni 2020 21:41Tim Drewett <tim.drewett1805@...> skrev:
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Thomas Nissvik
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Re: Infamy
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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Tim Drewett
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Re: Infamy
We had that at Cavendish Grammar, it dialled into the Hatfield college mainframe. We played four pawn chess on it
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Gary Keep <lordhay@...>
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#200306
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Re: TMP
A fanatical dedication...
Op di 30 jun. 2020 om 16:18 schreef Thomas Nissvik <thomas.nissvik@...
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Penguin Koen
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#200305
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Or met Thomas :D
Op di 30 jun. 2020 om 16:36 schreef Tom McKinnell via groups.io <tmckinnell=
[email protected]>:
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Penguin Koen
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Re: Infamy
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
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Kevin Walker
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Re: 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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John Haines
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Re: Infamy
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
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Ken Butt <k_butt@...>
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Re: Infamy
Thats where I first played the mainframe Star Trek during my shifts
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When I
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Gary Keep <lordhay@...>
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#200300
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Re: Infamy
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
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Gary Keep <lordhay@...>
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Re: 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
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Carole Flint
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Re: Infamy
First Basic program I wrote was stored on a 5 3/4"
And the last.
Den tis 30 juni 2020 20:00Doug Melville <dougmelville@...> skrev:
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Thomas Nissvik
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Re: Infamy
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
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Doug Melville
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Re: Infamy
8", 5.25" or 3".
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Chris Gilbride
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Re: [TMP] [TMP] Welcoming so many new members!
I'm not!
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John Cunningham
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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
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Carole Flint
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Re: Infamy
It is BIG though!
What's the difference between a G and a B anyway ?
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don.avis@...
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Re: TMP
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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Tom McKinnell
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It takes skill and dedication, that's for sure.
Den tis 30 juni 2020 16:15Jeremy Ratcliffe <jfratcliffe@...> skrev:
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Thomas Nissvik
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