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Downgrading from Win 8
Gene E. Bloch has written on 9/9/2013 7:34 PM:
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote: I've been doing computers since the very begining -- my first was before floppy disks were invented and before the word "software" was coined. Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before 1958. I saw my first one Jan 59! |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote: On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote: I've been doing computers since the very begining -- my first was before floppy disks were invented and before the word "software" was coined. Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before 1958. I come close. I miss by four years. |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote: I've been doing computers since the very begining -- my first was before floppy disks were invented and before the word "software" was coined. Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before 1958. His first would have been pretty expensive as well!! -- Regards - Rodney Pont The from address exists but is mostly dumped, please send any emails to the address below e-mail rpont (at) gmail (dot) com |
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On 9/9/2013 5:52 PM, Ken Blake wrote:
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote: On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote: I've been doing computers since the very begining -- my first was before floppy disks were invented and before the word "software" was coined. Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before 1958. I come close. I miss by four years. I feel so young now. IBM 1620 1967 |
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Doug Chadduck wrote:
I feel so young now. IBM 1620 1967 That's what I started on in high school, at just about the same time. 20,000 decimal storage positions. Look-up table to enable arithmetic operations. Lots of flashing lights on the console! -- Tim Slattery tim at risingdove dot com |
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote: On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote: I've been doing computers since the very begining -- my first was before floppy disks were invented and before the word "software" was coined. Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before 1958. Well, If there were floppies that early, they didn't show on the first PC I heard of. A TRS 80 (latee 1970's) with only input/output was via a cassette tape recorder. Soon after, TRS80's had floppy capibility -- the lrge (actuall floppy) -- reader for TRS 80 was abou the sive of a toaster! Needed two such drives if you wanted to use a program (which one had to write!) which both read and wrote. I recall that the sometime in the early 80s--- I was a CEO -- IBM rep always stopped by my office to "chat". Once he brought me a copy of a printed article describing a new invention called a Winchester disk drive . (The first hard-drive.) |
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:21:55 -0700, Doug Chadduck
wrote in Re Downgrading from Win 8: On 9/9/2013 5:52 PM, Ken Blake wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 16:34:00 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch" wrote: On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:22:28 -0500, wrote: I've been doing computers since the very begining -- my first was before floppy disks were invented and before the word "software" was coined. Pretty good. Not many people here have been doing computers since before 1958. I come close. I miss by four years. I feel so young now. IBM 1620 1967 I learned FORTRAN programming on that in college in 1968. The program was entered via punch-cards. By 1986 I was using a DEC PDP-11 that had a 2 MB removable cartridge storage drive that used these 15" diameter cartridges http://imgur.com/KBIbE5H On the right of the image you can see the iron-oxide covered plate inside the cartridge. -- Web based forums are like subscribing to 10 different newspapers and having to visit 10 different news stands to pickup each one. Email list-server groups and USENET are like having all of those newspapers delivered to your door every morning. |
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posted this via
: but, you will get used to it - and be up with the times as a bonus for no extra charge. HTH. Well, I probably won't live that long --but I'll try that after XP stops upgrades and then Win 7 stops upgrades. Being "up with the times" is not high on my list --- I don't even own anything with a touch screen and, so fa,r haven't found any reason to do so. What is the expression ? Ah, --- "he's old and set in his ways". :-) By "up with the times", I don't intend to imply a competitive race for the sake of "being first on the block" or "keeping up with the Jones"; more like, it's so much easier to keep-up than to catch-up; and the way technology is accelerating, if we wait very long, we have to re-learn the wheel, so to speeky. YMMV. -- "A sentient being's optimal chance at maximumizing their utility is a long and prosperous life." -- CMDR Spock, 'Star Trek - Into Darkness' (2013) |
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On 10 Sep 2013 17:46:47 GMT, Bucky Breeder
wrote: posted this via : but, you will get used to it - and be up with the times as a bonus for no extra charge. HTH. Well, I probably won't live that long --but I'll try that after XP stops upgrades and then Win 7 stops upgrades. Being "up with the times" is not high on my list --- I don't even own anything with a touch screen and, so fa,r haven't found any reason to do so. What is the expression ? Ah, --- "he's old and set in his ways". :-) By "up with the times", I don't intend to imply a competitive race for the sake of "being first on the block" or "keeping up with the Jones"; more like, it's so much easier to keep-up than to catch-up; and the way technology is accelerating, if we wait very long, we have to re-learn the wheel, so to speeky. YMMV. Well, If I live beyond the upgrading period for Win7 (XP Pro is still a year from doing so!) then I guess I'll just have to give up personal computing or then worry about learning Win 8 --lots of experienced users around by then :-) |
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"Gene Wirchenko" wrote in message
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:31:56 -0500, wrote: [snip] Well, If there were floppies that early, they didn't show on the first PC I heard of. A TRS 80 (latee 1970's) with only input/output was via a cassette tape recorder. Keyboard and screen are I/O, too. The KB certainly was, not so sure if the monitor qualifies. It was "memory mapped"; i.e., 1024 KB of RAM were reserved and anything put there was displayed on the monitor. -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:00:11 -0600, Ken1943 wrote:
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:46:20 -0400, Juan Wei wrote: has written on 9/10/2013 2:45 PM: Well, If I live beyond the upgrading period for Win7 (XP Pro is still a year from doing so!) then I guess I'll just have to give up personal computing or then worry about learning Win 8 --lots of experienced users around by then :-) You're missing the point. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "LEARN WINDOWS 8"!! You simply make it look and work like Windows 7 and you'll be back in comfortable territory. +1 I am soon going to give up trying to tell him things like this. I'm tired of repeating the same thing over and over. He either doesn't read carefully what we write or else he is just .... (I'm biting my tongue here). -- Ken Blake |
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"Ken Blake" wrote in message
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:00:11 -0600, Ken1943 wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:46:20 -0400, Juan Wei wrote: has written on 9/10/2013 2:45 PM: Well, If I live beyond the upgrading period for Win7 (XP Pro is still a year from doing so!) then I guess I'll just have to give up personal computing or then worry about learning Win 8 --lots of experienced users around by then :-) You're missing the point. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "LEARN WINDOWS 8"!! You simply make it look and work like Windows 7 and you'll be back in comfortable territory. +1 I am soon going to give up trying to tell him things like this. I'm tired of repeating the same thing over and over. He either doesn't read carefully what we write or else he is just .... (I'm biting my tongue here). Oh, let it out. You'll feel better after -- dadiOH ____________________________ Winters getting colder? Tired of the rat race? Taxes out of hand? Maybe just ready for a change? Check it out... http://www.floridaloghouse.net |
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