Posted on 06/07/2006 3:58:41 PM PDT by aculeus
"Were Greeks 1,400 years ahead of their time?"
And WE'RE curious about THEIR time keeping
mechanisms?
Ok .. you win. I refuse to admit being OLD enough to have used one of those!
Cool site! Whodathunkit that one day, computers would become "collectibles". Maybe I shoulda kept that old Vic-20 after all!
I waited to get into computers until building it yourself was no longer required. I was too busy raising kids actually. By the time I went back to college (studied computer information systems) you no longer had to submit your programs on punched cards but could enter them directly yourself.
Wow, a whole whopping 26k of RAM? Whatever did you do with all that memory!
"daisey wheel printer"
They were big $$$$$ and clunky, yet they represented sort of a transition between electric typewriters and the dot-matrix printers. It took a while to wean some people from using typewriters and calculators into computers, and DWPs were one way to move them.
Me too! Curtas were cool.
I still have my daisy-wheel printer, which is also a typewriter.
Boy! That was some state of the art back then!
I lost your phone number... what was that again?
They were big $$$$$ and clunky, yet they represented sort of a transition between electric typewriters and the dot-matrix printers.
It took a while to wean some people from using typewriters and calculators into computers, and DWPs were one way to move them.
Dot matrix printers were never a choice for business correspondence. I couldn't get a word processor into one of my old offices until the daisy wheel printers came out. All letters and specification had to appear professional and only character impact printers delivered. Other side of the problem was that copiers degraded legibilty of the already poor originals.
Transitions in office environs went like this: IBM Executive; IBM Selectric; Daisy Wheel printers: laser printers.
Line printers, small dot matrix printers were for in house drafts by techs, acct'g, basic back office stuff.
Cool!
Any body yet figure out what's in the chamber under the front paws of the Sphinx?
I have a Fortune 32:16 with some software and a couple of terminals that you can have for free. Hasn't been started in fifteen years, but gave very good service to my parents' business from 1982 to 1991.
It is also an effective argument against unlimited immigration.
It was tough to fill 26 k. Actually, at the time, it was a waste of money. Each 8 k board cost $440!
It's a huge ball of yarn.
Actually, I was serious, as in the work of Robert Schock.
Hey, they had to use a lot of rope moving all those stones.
When the job was finished, well ...
Okay, if that's the way you want it, Bob. BTW, those stones were brought to the pyramids as powder and reconstituted into blocks in situ ... not that much rope was needed.
I have a different theory.
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