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President Kennedy put a man on the moon
President Obama put a man in the ladies room
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President O'Bama[^] himself goes in the ladies room.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Quote: it isn't in fact Griff's alter ego
Griff has an ego? Wow!
Sorry OG, I'll get me coat......
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No, no...it's a Yugo
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It will be a stupid decision, and positive proof that stupidity can cause a rash! 
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Probably but I daresay there's still plenty of people itching to try it!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Whilst at college in the late 70s, I went punting (flat bottomed boat driven by long pole) with some mates on a sunny Saturday afternoon. For the purpose of brevity, alcohol was taken and care wasn't and I ended up in the river a number of times so I spent most of the afternoon in my underpants. Later on, I answered a call of nature and hopped over a fallen tree on the bank to find a secluded spot. What I actually found was a ditch full of stinging nettles and there am I, wallowing around in just the bare essentials.
Looking back, I think it is fair to say that rash decisions were also taken 
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Cool but never heard of any of the with the exception of the IBM tape drive.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I still recognise my fellow operators in the pictures.
You mean...you were a BOFH[^]? 
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I tried my dammnedest. 
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Quote: I tried my dammnedest
Not I. It just comes naturally!
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LEO, Lyons Electronic Office... was used at night to calculate and print British Rail payroll, my Dad had some of his payslips from the '60s now badly faded that were printed on it, got binned when my parents moved 
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The volt and current meters are so cool. Wish computers still had them. I guess some machines have digital versions through software -- the apps that came with a motherboard for one of my computers showed voltage and temp. Still, physical meters can't be beat.
Marc
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Quote: The volt and current meters are so cool
I remember those! I suppose it was an early warning system to alert operators that an electrical fire is about to break out!
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Now that's Art, with a capital A.
... Which is fortunate for the computing world, because the whole bunch of 'em probably have less computing power than I carry about my person.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The first digital computer I worked on had 4096 bytes of ferrite core memory in a module about half a cubic foot in volume that cost around $4,000 in 1970 dollars! I programmed it in Fortran and thought it was fantastic! This was in the early 1970s.
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modified 29-May-16 13:58pm.
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Is this the second part of How to feel old?[^]?
How you know you are a youngster...? you could carry your first own computer by yourself without help  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Aaah, ICL Orange. How much I don't miss it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I miss the old analog computers. Solving differential equations with infinite resolution; now that's something you just can't do with bits!
Will Rogers never met me.
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In my final year we spent a lot of time designing and refining analog computers. (This was 1967). Digital computers were the new kid on the block - Viewed with considerable suspicion. I am very sure the first shots to the moon relied heavily on analog computers. But now we are talking way above the heads of today's kids who probably don't know what an analog computer is!
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At my school, the Engineering department acquired a USN fire control computer for us to play with. It was a room-sized analog computer consisting of racks of operational amplifiers made of vacuum tubes, so the thing had a MTBF of something like 8 hours. Those were the days! It's hard to imagine that the Navy actually used those things to direct gun fire on a choppy sea, using real time pitch and yaw inputs to modify radar return signatures and properly aim the things. Amazing times, they were...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yup, them wuz the days! Kids nowadays - they don't know nutting!
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An IBM 1401 was used at US Coast Guard Eastern Area (New York) to support AMVERS, the merchant ship tracking system; I programmed it in the mid 1960's. A CDC 6600 was used at USCG Headquarters (Washington DC); I programmed it in the early 1970's.
I'm surprised that no Univac beasts were photographed. They were the workhorses of the US Navy.
FYI, in those days, the major manufacturers of computers used in the US were "IBM and the BUNCH" (Burroughs, Univac, NCR, CDC, and Honeywell).
Thanks for the memories.
Gus Gustafson
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