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Been tinkering with computers for a while and found that one has to be
willing to learn new things everyday since to me life is an adventure and new things pop up everyday. If I do not know something then I will ask and try things that way. Have a good day. MADDOG "Dave-UK" Here@home wrote in message ... "Gadfly" wrote in message ... Any one else find this news group? Despite posting it a few time it seems no one else has found it. Do they not know they need to update their news group list on occasion? Any one out there? I've just found this group, I usually post in the microsoft vista general group and will be lurking/posting here now as well. :-) |
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I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself
to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain "Gadfly" wrote in message ... Hi, nan2u. Good to see someone else is here. I'm sure that whatever you have to offer will be welcomed by those looking for info on '7'. nan2u wrote: I'm here.............don't have much to offer but will keep watching for messages.. "Gadfly" wrote in message ... Hi yourself, RC Well then, there's three of us who have found it. At least the 'kooks' haven't found it yet (alias, and like kind) which may be a blessing in disguise. I'll keep monitoring as I guess you will also. Have a good one. Jack R. C. White wrote: Hi, Gadfly. Yes, I found this newsgroup a few days ago. I see only one message besides your latest (dated today, 10/17/09). That other one was dated 9/19/09 and was a Reply to one in July. My Sync setting in WLM is "All messages". Looks like it's just you and me, kid. :^{ RC |
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Won't bother me, I have not been able to understand the people who complain
about top posting ever since I found Usenet in the late 90's. Hell if the poster has something interesting to me to say I could care less if it's top, bottom, or middle. G -- Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. "d. wain" wrote in message ... I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain |
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@yahoo.com says... Won't bother me, I have not been able to understand the people who complain about top posting ever since I found Usenet in the late 90's. Hell if the poster has something interesting to me to say I could care less if it's top, bottom, or middle. G Having been on Usenet since 84, I've always bottom posted or posted in- between while snipping the parts that didn't matter. In the old days Usenet wasn't reliable and posts could/would expire before people got to read all of them in a thread, so it was common place to quote the part you were replying to (at the top) so the readers could read what you were replying to BEFORE they read your reply. What bothers me is the people that don't snip and add just a little to the END of a large post, so that you have 80 lines of quoted text to 1 line of reply. -- You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that. Trust yourself. (remove 999 for proper email address) |
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R. C. White wrote:
Hi, Gadfly. Yes, I found this newsgroup a few days ago. I see only one message besides your latest (dated today, 10/17/09). That other one was dated 9/19/09 and was a Reply to one in July. My Sync setting in WLM is "All messages". Looks like it's just you and me, kid. :^{ RC It looks like several hundred people have found it so far, but happily that doesn't seem to include the nuts and creeps who have taken over so many of the ngs. I found it only yesterday, and already I have gotten an answer to a question. Thanks again, RC; I now remember that I had bought one of the RK books--for Win 98, used at Half price books, just before Release 2, after which I didn't need it any more. Allen |
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"Allen" wrote ...
R. C. White wrote: Hi, Gadfly. Yes, I found this newsgroup a few days ago. I see only one message besides your latest (dated today, 10/17/09). That other one was dated 9/19/09 and was a Reply to one in July. My Sync setting in WLM is "All messages". Looks like it's just you and me, kid. :^{ RC It looks like several hundred people have found it so far, So far? I count ~75 different users in the last 10 days. This newsgroup has been around for several years. |
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d. wain wrote:
I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. A strange thing that you find in the army: we had three technicians who had spent 54 weeks each learning how to service the things, but they were specifically _not_ authorized to make a soldered connection. They were supposed to take anything that needed soldering to a ordnance depot, where any of several part-time high school students would do the "highly technical" work. I had built all sorts of audio equipment and when they found that out, and that no one had ever told me that I was not authorized, my job expanded. Crazy army. Anyway later on I got involved with an IBM 1401, IBM 360 and its successors, various minis (my favorite was the IBM Series 1) and micros. I've forgotten how many languages I knew (and I hated COBOL). Allen |
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"Allen" wrote in message ... d. wain wrote: I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. That distance, as I recall, was set by the Burst Time Bias. Do you remember those whirly gigs called Zero Set switches? Those were the days. I was at the 75th Battalion near Waldorf, Md. A strange thing that you find in the army: we had three technicians who had spent 54 weeks each learning how to service the things, but they were specifically _not_ authorized to make a soldered connection. They were supposed to take anything that needed soldering to a ordnance depot, where any of several part-time high school students would do the "highly technical" work. I had built all sorts of audio equipment and when they found that out, and that no one had ever told me that I was not authorized, my job expanded. Crazy army. Anyway later on I got involved with an IBM 1401, IBM 360 and its successors, various minis (my favorite was the IBM Series 1) and micros. I've forgotten how many languages I knew (and I hated COBOL). Allen |
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"Jack Gillis" wrote in message .. . "Allen" wrote in message ... d. wain wrote: I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. That distance, as I recall, was set by the Burst Time Bias. Do you remember those whirly gigs called Zero Set switches? Those were the days. I was at the 75th Battalion near Waldorf, Md. A strange thing that you find in the army: we had three technicians who had spent 54 weeks each learning how to service the things, but they were specifically _not_ authorized to make a soldered connection. They were supposed to take anything that needed soldering to a ordnance depot, where any of several part-time high school students would do the "highly technical" work. I had built all sorts of audio equipment and when they found that out, and that no one had ever told me that I was not authorized, my job expanded. Crazy army. Anyway later on I got involved with an IBM 1401, IBM 360 and its successors, various minis (my favorite was the IBM Series 1) and micros. I've forgotten how many languages I knew (and I hated COBOL). Allen I beat you all, I worked on Stonehenge as it was built |
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"Allen" wrote:
Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. A strange thing that you find in the army: we had three technicians who had spent 54 weeks each learning how to service the things, but they were specifically _not_ authorized to make a soldered connection. They were supposed to take anything that needed soldering to a ordnance depot, where any of several part-time high school students would do the "highly technical" work. I had built all sorts of audio equipment and when they found that out, and that no one had ever told me that I was not authorized, my job expanded. Crazy army. Anyway later on I got involved with an IBM 1401, IBM 360 and its successors, various minis (my favorite was the IBM Series 1) and micros. I've forgotten how many languages I knew (and I hated COBOL). Don't you get annoyed by those young sales guys in computer stores who try to help you with that certain downtalking way? I like to watch their faces when I ask a highly technical question that they have no clue about. It usually works to make them leave me alone. ;-) |
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Jack Gillis wrote:
"Allen" wrote in message ... d. wain wrote: I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. That distance, as I recall, was set by the Burst Time Bias. Do you remember those whirly gigs called Zero Set switches? Those were the days. I was at the 75th Battalion near Waldorf, Md. Those must have been in the launcher section, and I never even saw our launcher area. I had good friends in it because we had all trained together at Ft Bliss and we all shared the same barracks in Pittsburgh. I was in the control area (forgot its official name) where I drew the enviable job of managing the supply van (because I had a portable typewriter), which exempt me from KP and other chores. Since the North Koreans never got near our main activity was volleyball, which I had never played, but I loved it, bad as I was. When I heard that's where our package was going I envisioned smoke everywhere, but when we got there they were well into a huge cleanup project and what I saw was a shiny, clean place set in the middle of beautiful country. Allen |
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"Allen" wrote in message ... Jack Gillis wrote: "Allen" wrote in message ... d. wain wrote: I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. That distance, as I recall, was set by the Burst Time Bias. Do you remember those whirly gigs called Zero Set switches? Those were the days. I was at the 75th Battalion near Waldorf, Md. Those must have been in the launcher section, and I never even saw our launcher area. I had good friends in it because we had all trained together at Ft Bliss and we all shared the same barracks in Pittsburgh. I was in the control area (forgot its official name) where I drew the enviable job of managing the supply van (because I had a portable typewriter), which exempt me from KP and other chores. Since the North Koreans never got near our main activity was volleyball, which I had never played, but I loved it, bad as I was. When I heard that's where our package was going I envisioned smoke everywhere, but when we got there they were well into a huge cleanup project and what I saw was a shiny, clean place set in the middle of beautiful country. Allen No, they were on the computer in the Fire Control Van. The Burst Time Bias was the upper left knob right next to the Parallax Settings and the Zero Set switches were in the far left cabinet. The potentiometers were in the center cabinet. What package were you? I was in 16 (1954) originally destined for Pittsburgh but wound up in Waldorf. My favorite memories are the 6 weeks we spent up at Red Canyon before training. Don't ask me how that happened. We finally fired in September and went back two times afterwards to show the new troops how it could be done. I'll never forget getting off the plane in Roswell before dawn with a load of draftees out of Brooklyn and watching their expressions as they got there first glimpse of the West. I wouldn't mind continuing this conversation by email. You are the first person I have run across since then that served in Nike battery. We would take up too much time and space here in this NG. |
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I wouldn't mind continuing this conversation by email. You are the first person I have run across since then that served in Nike battery. We would take up too much time and space here in this NG. I'm at . Let me know your email and I'll contact you privately. And I was in package 23. Allen |
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Jack Gillis wrote:
"Allen" wrote in message ... Jack Gillis wrote: "Allen" wrote in message ... d. wain wrote: I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Wain Hey, kid, I started eleven years before you, on an analog computer with 1500 dual and triple purpose vacuum tubes. It was a fire control computer for the Nike surface-to-air missile. I was stationed just west of Pittsburgh and with four feet of snow on the ground we had to run a huge air conditioner 24 hours a day or the computer would convert itself to a pizza oven. Digital was way too big and way, way too slow to use back then. The computer received info from a target tracking radar and converted it into data for a missile tracking radar and detonated at the proper distance from the target. That distance, as I recall, was set by the Burst Time Bias. Do you remember those whirly gigs called Zero Set switches? Those were the days. I was at the 75th Battalion near Waldorf, Md. Those must have been in the launcher section, and I never even saw our launcher area. I had good friends in it because we had all trained together at Ft Bliss and we all shared the same barracks in Pittsburgh. I was in the control area (forgot its official name) where I drew the enviable job of managing the supply van (because I had a portable typewriter), which exempt me from KP and other chores. Since the North Koreans never got near our main activity was volleyball, which I had never played, but I loved it, bad as I was. When I heard that's where our package was going I envisioned smoke everywhere, but when we got there they were well into a huge cleanup project and what I saw was a shiny, clean place set in the middle of beautiful country. Allen No, they were on the computer in the Fire Control Van. The Burst Time Bias was the upper left knob right next to the Parallax Settings and the Zero Set switches were in the far left cabinet. The potentiometers were in the center cabinet. What package were you? I was in 16 (1954) originally destined for Pittsburgh but wound up in Waldorf. My favorite memories are the 6 weeks we spent up at Red Canyon before training. Don't ask me how that happened. We finally fired in September and went back two times afterwards to show the new troops how it could be done. I'll never forget getting off the plane in Roswell before dawn with a load of draftees out of Brooklyn and watching their expressions as they got there first glimpse of the West. I wouldn't mind continuing this conversation by email. You are the first person I have run across since then that served in Nike battery. We would take up too much time and space here in this NG. |
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"d. wain" wrote: I just found this group. I started with the IBM 360 and had to teach myself to program in order to get by Ellie "the computer lady" and be able use to beast to do an item analysis of my examination results. Then TRS-80 and BASIC, So I have been around puters since 1965. I'll offer help when I can, but I expect that I will learn more than I contribute. I am so old that I top post. Hello. I started with the IBM 1401 in '63, then on to the IBM 360 in '65. The rest is a long story. IMO top posting is the way to go. |
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