Historical Thread ... Just remembering

[Smoke]

Trip Down Memory Lane

Seti@Home Certificate

Please excuse an old guy reminiscing.

 

[TennesseeTony]

I was reading the first page of the 'memory lane' and saw something that bothers me: :thumbsup:

I miss it. I need it. I want it bad!

Let's get :thumbsup: back! @Markfw @Ken g6 @Smoke @Perknose

Smoke, you're not old, you're just highly experienced!

 

[Ken g6]

Let's get :thumbsup: back!

Us mods can't really do anything about that. Try posting in this thread: https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/the-great-emoji-controversy.2488779/

 

[TennesseeTony]

Well since this is a SETI thread.... EDIT: Ah crap, where'd my little horde of aliens go? tried using 3rd party emoti's. Failed.

 

[Smoke]

Here is a picture of an award that belongs to all of us.

 

[iwajabitw]

I miss the old bb smileys too, popcorn, rockband, machine gun, "In before the lock", and sigs, expecially the DC sigs from boinc stats or Free-DC. Just my rant .02. All my classic Seti tasks were hard to get, old AMD K6-2 and 3. Wont be much longer and DC will hit 20yrs for me.

Edit: Forgot to say I was crunching for the old Hardware Central back then. Anandtech and Ars I think were one of the better competitors at the time.

 

[GLeeM]

I remember a group that helped many TeAmmates reach their next major Milestone before Seti Classic ended 🙂

 

[iwajabitw]

Not to side track this thread. I stayed home today, hurt my back this weekend helping my future son in law clean his 94 SVT Cobra up he just bought. So, AMC was showing an old movie that got me into computers in the first place, "Wargames". Man an IPhone, S7, or my 950xl phone has more power than the WOPR in that movie. Those gigantic floppy disks had me rolling laughing. But still a classic, and what we do here in DC, is just a stepping stone to what others will build on later. Cheers guys!

 

[TennesseeTony]

20 years ago, the major automotive factory in which I work (DENSO, 2nd only to Bosch) had AS400 systems, using massive 8 inch floppy disks, and green screens. Even then that was wayyyy outdated. 😀

I may need to rewatch that movie, it was a good one. Sorry about your back. I carry a cane in the car for emergencies...been over a year since I've needed it though, and no complaints about that.

 

[Markfw]

And I learned my first computer language on a Tektronix 4051. I will reply later with the details on it, if anybody cares, or knows anything about it other than me.

I even taught a class on it as a community college. Circa 1982. I want to see who else knows the history on these.

(Hint dual 8086's,storage display, 8 inch floppy, and a tape drive for primary input.)

And what famous TV show were they the major prop on ? Extra points for that.

 

[Orange Kid]

First experience with computers...High school using a telex machine to communicate with the local Universities main frame. Too much typing.
Next....Apple ii...too addicting, stayed away till the 386's and it's been a money pit and time consumer ever since😉
But ya gotta love it. Never a career for me, but a definite power user and amateur web programmer of sorts.

 

[Smoke]

The highest form of technology available at the university where I graduated in 1962 was a electrically powered multiplying adding machine.

While serving as a 1st Lt at one of our TS Munition Depots I actually developed from scratch a program to account for the location and disposition of "empty box cars" around the USA. This was all done with absolutely no computer experience using IBM 90 digit punch cards.

The program I developed was used for several years. 😱

 

[Markfw]

And I learned my first computer language on a Tektronix 4051. I will reply later with the details on it, if anybody cares, or knows anything about it other than me.

I even taught a class on it as a community college. Circa 1982. I want to see who else knows the history on these.

(Hint dual 8086's,storage display, 8 inch floppy, and a tape drive for primary input.)

And what famous TV show were they the major prop on ? Extra points for that.

ok, no takers ? It was most of the consoles on the original Battlestar Galactica's bridge. Also, I had the "upgraded version" with 16k ram. The tape drive was where is read from, 16k at a time. So you load 16k of code, run it and at the end of that code it would say something like "find 2" (2nd tape file) and then "run 2000" the line number. Later we got to use the 8 inch floppy drive which help 500k of space ! The unit was 2-3 feet wide, 3 feet deep, and a foot tall ! For one 8 inch disk.