Kadaitcha Man wrote:
Which was what? Possibly a PDP-8??

GreyCloud wrote:

Wonders never cease.

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Kadaitcha Man wrote:
I remember now. There was also the Intel bread board with
hex keypad and LED readouts. A lot of the colleges used
them back then to teach assembly for electronic control
devices.

Kadaitcha Man wrote:
But then that sort of dates you too... doesn't it.

GreyCloud wrote:

My date was sewn up five or six years back. I have a colostomy bag now.
Sorry, you can't date me... unless you fancy a bit on the side.

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Kadaitcha Man wrote:
Now that is one shitty deal.

As predicted, Brian V. Smith typed:

I don't remember _any_ microcontrollers back in 1957 when I started working
with computers. The 'processor' unit was built using discrete components
(CRC/NCR 304 -- world's first solid-state).

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relic wrote:

Maybe the first commercial one. Jean Felker built one at Bell Telephone
Labs before 1956. I am not sure when Philco made the Transac, but it was
in the 1950s, too, IIRC.

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As predicted, GreyCloud typed:
There's too many, and all you do is ''swap" today. In those days, we had to
find the bad transistor/diode/etc. and repair it.

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relic wrote:
Did you ever see the kludge hard drive that
Singer-Librascope made on display at the Smithstonian??
The read/write electronics rotated and the drum stayed
stationary... the electronics used miniature vacuum tubes.

relic wrote:
And in those days a good technician got paid well. Today...
not much.

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Yeh and change the odd AC/VP2 HF Pentode in the op-amp output drive or EY34
double diode valve in the power supply. Those buggers got really hot too eh!
(Is that 40s technology?)

As predicted, Dr Halonfires typed:
;-) 50s.

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"relic" <reply.to@newsgroup.com> wrote in message
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That old technology was just massive eh!

Before my time a little, but one thing I must say is you cannot equal the
sheer uniqueness of valve sound with its harmonic distortion, hum, and
incredibly booming bass tones if set up right. I do miss it a bit.

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Dr Halonfires wrote:
Nope. Just Navy boat-anchor electronics. :-))

relic wrote:
All of that stuff was mostly mechanical and kept a good
mechanic busy. But mostly just amazing back in those days.

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:26:39 -0400, Ed >:-) wrote:

Neither is Linux. Nor *BSD. Nor... well, any system. All of them can be
_rendered_ safe, by removing network connections, floppy drives, etc, etc.

In terms of relative safety, though, Linux appears a clear winner when
compared to Windows.


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