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Sat Apr 18, 2020 12:19 pm

Glenn wrote: My first computer, circa 1973.

I spent hours punching Hollerith cards with my homebrew FORTRAN code on those muthas back then.

As Y2K approached, I got calls...

Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:30 pm

I was just telling my wife about punching Cards for FORTRAN class !

Sun Apr 19, 2020 7:11 am

ach60 wrote: I was just telling my wife about punching Cards for FORTRAN class !

Heck, artists were punching cards way before you all!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

Tue Apr 21, 2020 6:47 pm

KTPhil wrote: Abscate wrote: Timex Sinclair if you still have a CRT TV to match

BINGO! $100 baby! Or free if you listened to a timesharing sales pitch out in the California desert, haha!

Or if you were even earlier, the TS1000 was already assembled, that's for lightweights... you assembled your Sinclair ZX80 kit yourself!

A columnist for PC Magazine later mused that he was putting that computer to its highest and best use.

As a doorstop!
;-)

I had one of those. It had a Z80 processor with a whopping 2k of RAM. Bought it for $20 at a place called Peachtree Salvage because it did not work. Opened it up and the keyboard FPC cable had come loose. Easy fix. Overall, not worth the $20 I spent. I got more use from my TI-30.

Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:35 pm

ccpalmer wrote: ach60 wrote: I was just telling my wife about punching Cards for FORTRAN class !

Heck, artists were punching cards way before you all!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

Yep! A little-known connection. Another detail: the cards best known were made the same size of our paper currency of the time, since handling and cutting machines were available.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

These kinds of connections were the subject of a James Burke series on BBC/PBS here that taught history as these linkages, rather than dates and times. A worthy approach that would make it much more real to students.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)

Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:04 am

CTRL + (plus sign) and CTRL - (minus sign) will also increase or decrease, respectively, the size of your Web browser content display.

Wed Apr 22, 2020 7:50 am

Busstom wrote: CTRL + (plus sign) and CTRL - (minus sign) will also increase or decrease, respectively, the size of your Web browser content display.
Wow - I just slightly decreased my computer idiocy !!! So much to learn.

Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:26 am

run some scans too...I have mine set up to run scans & update every day. and most days I run then one or too times more. especialy if I get in a stie I havent been on before, or somebody sends me something,,, usualy something stupid from a friend like a how smert are you test, most only get 4 out of the 10 questions test your self today!!. well those are virus carriers.you always get 8 out of 10....dm your smart.... and they get into your system..( now you realize how stupid you are they first.usualy turning off your protections. email, facebook, messaanger etc. I always run scans after going to any of that, especially utube. but sofar I have never needed to run a scan for the samba...thanks everett!!!

Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:34 am

Cusser wrote: Busstom wrote: CTRL + (plus sign) and CTRL - (minus sign) will also increase or decrease, respectively, the size of your Web browser content display.
Wow - I just slightly decreased my computer idiocy !!! So much to learn.
https://turbofuture.com/computers/keyboard-shortcut-keys

Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:40 am

THATS THE STRANGEST LOOKING DART BOARD IV'E EVER SEEN...

Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:47 am

mark tucker wrote: THATS THE STRANGEST LOOKING DART BOARD IV'E EVER SEEN...
More like this:

Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:59 am

Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:15 am

Glenn wrote: Cusser wrote: Busstom wrote: CTRL + (plus sign) and CTRL - (minus sign) will also increase or decrease, respectively, the size of your Web browser content display.
Wow - I just slightly decreased my computer idiocy !!! So much to learn.
https://turbofuture.com/computers/keyboard-shortcut-keys

Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!

Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:17 am

Quote: Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!

I thought Windows ME was the latest, I didn't get a sticker to upgrade.

Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:17 am

Cusser wrote: Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!
I still use DOS commands

Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:35 am

Glenn wrote: Cusser wrote: Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!
I still use DOS commands

Lurking deep underneath the glossy veneer of Windows lies the heart of DOS, still to this day.

Funny the old DOS file search commands worked better than the crappy Windows Explorer search function, which misses things and gives up after a while. Sort of Windows Millennial Edition, eh? ;-)

Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:48 am

Glenn wrote: Cusser wrote: Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!
I still use DOS commands

Which is now a form of attack

:D

I heard Windows ME stopped when Gates found out he wasnt going to get a trophy.

Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:50 am

Abscate wrote: Glenn wrote: Cusser wrote: Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!
I still use DOS commands

Which is now a form of attack

:D

I heard Windows ME stopped when Gates found out he wasnt going to get a trophy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack

Wed Apr 22, 2020 11:57 am

Abscate wrote: Glenn wrote: Cusser wrote: Great, but by the time I learn all that they'll come out with a Windows 8 !!!
I still use DOS commands

Which is now a form of attack

:D

Punny

Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:00 pm

DOS - what am I going to do with another 384kB of RAM?

:D :D :D