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Flight Sim 1960

Hi Ickie,

LOL :icon_lol:

Although, as I will be 59 in a few months time, I can (like you) remember the 'old' computer rooms and card readers etc :icon_eek:

Its a nice reminder of how far forward technology has moved over the years. Forgive me for reminiscing (Friday night is my red wine glass or two night) but I still remember the WOW that I got with Tank on the old Atari console - actually in my home! Then my first experience of FS 30+ years ago (I think). Blue skies and green grass - and they moved (slowly) when you rolled the aircraft! Ninerva ;)

Cheers

Paul
 
Overshoe said:
My first (at home) was a TI99/4a with a cassette tape for storage.
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Hey! That was my first home computer, too. I remember programming (in Basic) it to say dirty words through the attachable "Speech Emulator." I even had a flight simulator for it called 4A Flyer. The graphics were awesome. Here's a shot.
 
This thread's getting like a Usenet forum years back where different folk went on about how far back their computer experience went. The whole forum went very quiet when one contributor told how he used to turn the handle on Babbage's Difference Engine...

Hint: that was first built and finished in 1991, its printer in 2002: more stories, please!
 
Yesterday there was an item on the local TV news:
"CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Harris Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), today opened its Calgary, Alberta avionics operation, following a $2.3 million investment to enhance the facility. The Harris facility supports the work to be completed under the company's six-year, $273 million (CAD) services contract with the Government of Canada for the CF-18 Avionics Optimized Weapon System Support (OWSS) program."
"As steadfast partners, we deliver top-quality support services for the avionics systems on-board Canada's CF-18 fighter-aircraft fleet, and are dedicated to assuring the CF-18's success through its life expectancy."

So???
Well, watch the video...
http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/video/index.html?releasePID=_5EMwEtxvYlOzcMsbQQ0nHxleC8jnPp9

http://www.harris.com/
 
Ickie, that squirrel is my hero, Pint of beer / lager and a bag of nuts.. my kind of night out :)
 
When I worked in the USAF doing ECM, all of our equipment was circa 1970 - 1987. The ONLY equipment attached to our ancillary test equipment that was newer was the actual computers themselves which ran the test programs. These got upgraded in the late 90s for reliability.

Mind you, I was in a modern USAF in 2001-2005.... ROFL.
 
I used to support those!

W. Bleddyn said:
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!
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A model 1 level 1 had 4 K ram, a model 1 level 2 had 16 K ram. They could take a cassette drive. With an expansion port it could go to 48K. They could also take up to 4 160 k floppy drives, and a 150 baud modem! Later I got a model III computer, and then a 5 meg hard drive ($3500.00 for the HD alone!)

We've come a long way......
 
Dang! Jim beat me to it on the panels out of a sub maneuvering room :salute:
That they put it in the scene makes me scratch my head a bit though...I guess it's sort of like watching movies where the enemy planes are obvious fakes (ala T-6 Zeros) :icon_lol:
 
N2056 said:
Dang! Jim beat me to it on the panels out of a sub maneuvering room :salute:
That they put it in the scene makes me scratch my head a bit though...I guess it's sort of like watching movies where the enemy planes are obvious fakes (ala T-6 Zeros) :icon_lol:
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Probably figured that each home computer in 2004 would have it's own reactor for a power supply.

(Thought I recognized that panel)
 
Hi Folks

jdhaenens said:
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)
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LMAO Jim.

I'd recognised the kit, but not the specifics.
Lot fewer gauges on your RP,
and our wheels were in the ER, (certainly on S & T classes).

What's the item in the panel face underneath the throttles ?

Googled for other MR images
and it pulled up this very pic,
with an explanation of its origin, (you'll need to scroll down).

Jim, follow the link there, labeled "upon which I severed for five years". :icon_lol:

PS
Did yours have built in ash-tray placements ?

ATB
Paul
 
Maneuvering was in the front of the engine room. We had individual throttles (one for each main turbine) in the Engine Room as well. One of the drills was loss of throttle control. We had to disengage some spline couplings to transfer control to the ER. ...and of course we had mounted ash trays, at least until a couple of years before I retired.

That roundish looking thing below the throttles was just the handles to open up the bottom panel. On the right side of the throttle panel desktop was the Engine Order Telegrph, the Log Meter and a BQA-8 to let you know if you were being stupid and cavitating.

I passed my qualification board :salute:, but it was a part of being Surface Warfare Officer qualified. When you come up through the ranks like I did, they won't let you stay on subs. They make you fix 'em.

You know that Sylvain Sparouty is a submariner (I believe still serving) don't you?

And Robert is a radcon guy in San Diego (darn near put "Weenie").
 
BASys said:
Hi Folks


LMAO Jim.

I'd recognised the kit, but not the specifics.
Lot fewer gauges on your RP,
and our wheels were in the ER, (certainly on S & T classes).

What's the item in the panel face underneath the throttles ?

Googled for other MR images
and it pulled up this very pic,
with an explanation of its origin, (you'll need to scroll down).

Jim, follow the link there, labeled "upon which I severed for five years". :icon_lol:

PS
Did yours have built in ash-tray placements ?

ATB
Paul
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I would like to know how they came up with this fact:

A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds
 
W. Bleddyn said:
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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We still used these at Rockwell when we built the B-1B in the 1980's. Had to maneuver around the holes when writing in job numbers on the back side. Good times.
:ernae:
 
CodyValkyrie said:
I wouldn't want to pay for THOSE ink cartridges.
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lol, Cody you are too young to remember but those "Teletype" machines used Ribbons, and I had to re-ink the dam things, what a GD messy job that was, in those days it was not refilling or reusing to be "Green" or to help the environment, it was because the boss was just a plain CHEEPSKATE...lol
 
srgalahad said:
Yesterday there was an item on the local TV news:
"CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Harris Canada Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), today opened its Calgary, Alberta avionics operation, following a $2.3 million investment to enhance the facility. The Harris facility supports the work to be completed under the company's six-year, $273 million (CAD) services contract with the Government of Canada for the CF-18 Avionics Optimized Weapon System Support (OWSS) program."
"As steadfast partners, we deliver top-quality support services for the avionics systems on-board Canada's CF-18 fighter-aircraft fleet, and are dedicated to assuring the CF-18's success through its life expectancy."

So???
Well, watch the video...
http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/video/index.html?releasePID=_5EMwEtxvYlOzcMsbQQ0nHxleC8jnPp9

http://www.harris.com/
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ROFLMAO... Commodre PET, and I thought the Navy had it bad with those old Seakings....
 
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