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Posted: 8/16/2001 6:50:14 AM EDT
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The CRAY computer. Located at the NSA (National Security Agency) in MD.
Commodore 64 |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 6:57:27 AM EDT
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VIC-20 [;)]
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Posted: 8/16/2001 6:59:44 AM EDT
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I'm Afraid I Can't Do That Dave...
My Mind Is Going One Moment Please That is Something I Cannot Allow Dave,What Do You Think You're Doing? |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 7:03:24 AM EDT
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HAL, open the Pod Bay Doors...
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Posted: 8/16/2001 7:05:58 AM EDT
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Was it this forum that someone said? You go up 1 letter on HAL and get IBM?
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Posted: 8/16/2001 7:05:59 AM EDT
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Timex Sinclair. Makes the TRS-80 look like a Cray!
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Posted: 8/16/2001 8:04:31 AM EDT
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The first one. Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computor. For a cool trip back in time, try the ENIAC simulator:
[URL]http://www.seas.upenn.edu:8080/~museum/sim.html[/URL] You can program and use the "ENIAC." This thing is the greatest ever because it used vacuum tubes, that's right, the little bulb-like things in old (real old) TV's and radios. For the young'ens, this thing won't run Half-Life, so don't even try. ;) |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 9:14:17 AM EDT
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Quoted: Timex Sinclair. Makes the TRS-80 look like a Cray! LMAO I had a Timex Sinclair 1000! Was quite the machine.. Aviator [img]www.dredgeearthfirst.com/aviator.gif[/img] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 9:17:14 AM EDT
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Not the one that Ar15.com is on...
I have in front of me a TI-99 cartridge based computer. I also remember my Atari 64...man, 64k of RAM...that's all anyone would ever need. [;)] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 9:41:35 AM EDT
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An abacus....or maybe the human brain.
(Not mine, of course) |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 9:44:48 AM EDT
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OK I"ll admit it, I had a Radio Shack TRS80 when they first came out, seem kinda cool at the time, wish I still had it, I could maybe donate it to the Smithsonian...
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Posted: 8/16/2001 10:13:04 AM EDT
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ENIAC
High Performance Tactical Gear! [url]www.Lightfighter.com[/url] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 10:15:40 AM EDT
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[url]http://www.alienware.com/[/url]
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Posted: 8/16/2001 10:18:01 AM EDT
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My Brain
then my TI 86 programable calculater |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 10:30:08 AM EDT
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Quoted: My Brain then my TI 86 programable caculator Hee hee.... I own and create math programs for the TI 92. |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 10:42:03 AM EDT
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Colossus
[url]http://www.maxmon.com/1943ad.htm[/url] Alan Turing and Colossus are one of the unsung heroes of WWII. |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 10:54:25 AM EDT
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Quoted: An abacus....or maybe the human brain. (Not mine, of course) That's exactly what I was gonna say. Sextants are pretty damn good too. |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:00:51 AM EDT
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OK here is another one.
When I was in college studying electrical engineering (I'm not saying when) we used to do power system modeling using a 400Hz analog computer. It was given to the college by American Electric Power. This thing was huge, took up a big room and it had 60/400 hz frequency changer in the basment to power the thing. |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:01:12 AM EDT
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DEC PDP11-45
I don't know if it was called electric pink or shocking pink but it had pink switches on the operating panel. Singer-Link GP4B Core memory with magnetized donuts and a rotating drum memory. Took up a whole room and simple math calculations like square root was done in a rack of cards with MECL logic. MDEC Vital II Paper tape. 'nuff said. |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:20:54 AM EDT
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Any computer that can automatically detect and cesnor independent thought typed through its keyboard or displayed on it's screen. also built in hidden camera, and drug/gunpowder sniffing sensors would be nice too.
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:25:34 AM EDT
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The GWIGGINATOR 3000 SUX (SUX stands for sucks if you didn't already know)
Never has not failed at any given time or during any application. In fact it's screwing up n........ |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:30:37 AM EDT
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COLOSSUS, the mega-computer it "The Forbin Project".
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:35:45 AM EDT
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Mine, the one i post this shit with.
[moon] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:49:11 AM EDT
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Computer Set, AN/UYK-7
We used 'em on the early 688 Class Fast Attack Submarines back in 1987-88. Used for weapon control and also the passive sonar. Simply turning it on DID NOT BOOT IT UP. There was a maintenance panel with a ton of indicator lamps, switches, and button on it. You had to punch in a bunch of crap just to get the thing to start up! Also it was a great space heater [;)] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 11:55:21 AM EDT
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ASCI White.
[url]http://www.llnl.gov/asci/news/white_news.html[/url] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 12:20:13 PM EDT
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Pascal's calculating machine. It successfully avoided this whole electricity fad - a big selling point to personal calculating machine buyers circa 1645.
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Posted: 8/16/2001 12:23:37 PM EDT
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Quoted: Computer Set, AN/UYK-7 We used 'em on the early 688 Class Fast Attack Submarines back in 1987-88. Used for weapon control and also the passive sonar. Simply turning it on DID NOT BOOT IT UP. There was a maintenance panel with a ton of indicator lamps, switches, and button on it. You had to punch in a bunch of crap just to get the thing to start up! I used to work on the AN/UYK-7 project at Sperry Univac in the Twin Cities. How did you like the "laptop"? That piece of big iron has a beast. The lights were the actual display in binary. You just needed to know how to read the address and the data in order to test ti. I saw a film of the battle-testing of the UYK-7. They bolt it to a heavy platform and turn it on. While it's running, a 1.5 ton hammer swings around and thumps the paltform. The computer needs to run successfully throughout these shocks. If it doesn't, it fails. Someone decided to hook up a 'modern' PC to the platform and run it through the test. Once that hammer hit, the monitor bounced off of the platform, the floppy drive was ejected from the box and every light went dead. Did you ever have to work with the tape drive? People, I ain't talking about mag tape. We're referring to the era of paper tape with the code punched into it. I also worked on the AN/UYK-43(42?) and AN/AYK-14 projects. |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 12:32:19 PM EDT
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one more vote for HAL9000, after all he was born at my School.
But watch out for this, another fine machine being made at the U of I, [url]http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/Access/Releases/010809.DTF.html[/url] |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 1:48:26 PM EDT
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1. Coleco Adam 2. Commodore Pet (.....damn im getting old) |
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Posted: 8/16/2001 1:54:20 PM EDT
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Remember Wang computers??
It looked and felt like an IBM pc. Even the OS looked like DOS, but when you try to retrieve data from a Wang disk on an IBM you get an error. This brings to mind an old joke... Q: "Who was the first computer guru?" A: "Eve...she held an Apple in one hand and Adam's Wang in the other" |
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