Are Glass Panels Really Unsafe

[jcoloccia]

Originally Posted by Ralph Kramden

Floppies? Hehe... I remember programming PDP-8s with the toggle switches on the front panel. Magnetic core memory, baby! I was a power user with a thermal paper teletypewriter with a 1200 baud acoustic modem hacking into Bell Labs and Fermilab in the 70's!

--REK

You had toggle switches? All we had was dirt. It was good enough for us and we liked it.

[Ralph Kramden]

I have memories of IBM terminals, keypunch machines and cards and some guy in an office whose job it was to load the cards into the reader for you and then later tear off the paper from the line printer and put it into a slot in the wall for you. I seem to remember that on some keyboards you didn't have either a "1" key or an "i" key - I can't remember - you were supposed to use "i's" when you needed a one.

--REK

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by Ralph Kramden

I have memories of IBM terminals, keypunch machines and cards and some guy in an office whose job it was to load the cards into the reader for you and then later tear off the paper from the line printer and put it into a slot in the wall for you. I seem to remember that on some keyboards you didn't have either a "1" key or an "i" key - I can't remember - you were supposed to use "i's" when you needed a one.

--REK

I think that was an L or 1 and that keyboard was called a typewriter.

This is too funny. I started life as a graphics programmer back in the day when if you could figure out how to rotate a wire box you where hot sh..

My senior project was drawing stress strain diagrams for beams with different loading, modulis of eleacticity, cross sections, etc. VERY high tech stuff for the day. Now you don't even think about that stuff when using ACAD or some of the other programs.

BTW, do you remember PIP and Gil Ward (The god of CP/M)? I wonder what happened to him.

On my desk at home I have punch card and a metal card plate as a soviner from days gone by.

Ok, I'm feeling VERY old!

[Ralph Kramden]

Originally Posted by N941WR

. . .On my desk at home I have punch card and a metal card plate as a soviner from days gone by.

Ok, I'm feeling VERY old!

I remember getting the issue of Popular Electronics where they showed you how to build your own computer. Toggle switches in the front. Too bad I didn't save that one. And then sometime later Heathkit came out with it's line of kit built computers...

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by Ralph Kramden

And then sometime later Heathkit came out with it's line of kit built computers...

Been there, done that.

Now, I kind of like not knowing anything about computers.

[Rainier Lamers]

OK, this thread is getting waaayyy out of hand.
Guys, you make me feel old. Very old. Yesterday I was young. Now I'm old. Aaahhhhhh !!!!

My guys here are following this thread and are starting to look at me funny. Ruined ! Utter Ruin !

Rainier Lamers
CEO MGL Avionics

[Rainier Lamers]

Originally Posted by Ralph Kramden

Can I come and work for you?



--REK

Yes, but you won't like it.
Our R&D is run along the lines of a Roman slave galley.
A set of drums is used to keep the pace and a whip is used as motivation. Payment is in the form of stale bread and thin soup.
Employee of the month gets to sleep right side up - everybody else sleeps hanging by their feet...

Nah, not that bad...

Rainier
CEO MGL Avionics

[Ralph Kramden]

Originally Posted by Rainier Lamers

Yes, but you won't like it.
Our R&D is run along the lines of a Roman slave galley.
A set of drums is used to keep the pace and a whip is used as motivation. Payment is in the form of stale bread and thin soup.
Employee of the month gets to sleep right side up - everybody else sleeps hanging by their feet...

Nah, not that bad...

Rainier
CEO MGL Avionics

Oh, so in other words, you have modeled your employee relations along the lines of Raytheon.

[nicolcarstens]

Originally Posted by Rainier Lamers

My guys here are following this thread and are starting to look at me funny.

Now let's not blame the thread for that! We know your dark CP/M secrets!

I think you "experienced" guru's should start a new thread: "You remember the days... (when EFISes could not fit into a 747 - let alone not being reliable because of biological BUGS)"...

And by the way: I quite like the soup! But then I am a sucker for pain...

One last thing with regards to age... In Rainier's defense: he started REALLY young! (I guess it was a mistake to call it 35 years of embedded experience... let's just say: electronics, mostly embedded systems!)

Cheers,
Nicol...
... happy to be a slave at MGL Avionics...

[johnp]

Rainier wrote:

I wrote space invaders for a TRS-80 color (4 colors including black !).

yeah, and that wasn't even a real color mode. that mode was supposed to be monochrome. it's just that the original color computer had so much 3.58 Mhz noise on the motherboard that it didn't shut down the color killer in the tv set, so it aliased. i bet if you hit reset "red" and "blue" would swap sometimes.