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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Flight Sim 1960

hehe, nice post!

forecast for 2004:
"with the teletype interface and the fortran language, the computer will be easy to use"

We came a long way, didn't we?

Cheers,
Mark
 
The panels in the background are the Steam Plant, Reactor Plant, and Electric Plant Control Panels in an S5W nuclear submarine Maneuvering Room(one of ours). Lots of dials and gauges, but nothing to do with the monitor or key board shown.

Jim (can probably still identifyand explain all the dials and gauges)
 
Overshoe said:
and the matched set of 32 megabyte hard drives were the size of suitcases.
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That must have been alot of storage memory even for back then.

My first home computer was the good ol' TRS-80 in 1980. No internal memory and data cassettes. I don't recall how big the first internal storage we got actually was, but I remember the sales guy at Radio Shack being very excited that it could hold about half a book's worth of text!
 
W. Bleddyn said:
That must have been alot of storage memory even for back then.
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Each drive (they were mirror images that swapped from primary to backup every other day) contained an operating system, a complete bookkeeping package, a personnel management/payroll package and an item file of 15,000-18,000 items and ran (in my location) 4 work stations and 16 cash registers with scanners. I still remember after all these years, some of the alpha-numeric codes to use a cash register as a remote work station. I remember one particularly unpleasant morning standing at a cash register manually changing the prices of over 300 varieties of wine. 34x08500000356x398Meat. It was a lot different when I retired, 11 PC work stations, 26 cash registers and all price changes were automatic timed batches. That was an OS2 system and now they are on Windows 2000 I think (Maybe XP)

My first (at home) was a TI99/4a with a cassette tape for storage.
 
That thing looks like the old Amdahl Corporation Magnuson 390/750 I used to program for! Hey that wasn't all that long ago...was it?
Ted
 
I have been around Russian computers in the 1970s that took up a large hall and needed air conditioning to keep cool and running optimally.
 
So this is a crowd that remembers Herman Hollerith's floppy discs then? hahaha

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I was real young but I remember my older brother having stacks of those things in the 70's.
 
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