steve@BRL-BMD.ARPA (05/10/84)
From: Stephen Wolff <steve@BRL-BMD.ARPA> ...if it doesn't cool down soon the ENIAC users will come out of the woodwork.. DO have a care! We have a part-time shell hacker, Lisp programmer and Division Chief who coded for the ENIAC.
tim@callan.UUCP (05/24/84)
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I am not old enough to have used the 1620, so I am getting
tired of all this 1620 stuff. My first computer was a SR-52
from Texas Instruments.
If I held it near my AM radio, it would make noise. It was
always the same type of noise so I was never able to play music.
For mass storage I had magnetic cards. Programs were limited
to 224 steps. However, it was possible for a true hacker to
make his program swap into data memory, gaining some steps that
way. I also did some overlays on magnetic cards.
Seriously, perhaps it is time to start a new newsgroup, say
net.unix-wizards.senile for people who want to talk about their
old machines?
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ihnp4!{vortex,scgvaxd}mats@dual.UUCP (Mats Wichmann) (06/06/84)
net.unix-wizards.senile? Hmmm, why not. Okay, my first machine was an
IBM 1620, like so many other poeple (for example, Jeff Schreibma of
UniSoft, and Gene Dronek of AIM Technologies). Of course, this was
when I was back in 7th grade...perhaps these discussions do belong
somewhere else, but no need to create a new newsgroup.
SPS? Who needs it?
Mats Wichmann
Dual Systems Corp.
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