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| (...) But that was a long time ago :-) Nowadays we *do* have an awful lot of disk space, and don't really have to squeeze the files. OTOH, every 'unnecessary' byte to read will take time, again and again while rendering, unless the rendering program (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Was it a digital switch or an analog? (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) You were lucky! We didn't even have skin! All we had was twine to try and keep our entrails in! And they would leak out all over, and parents would beat us to death each night for mussing up the floor! JOHN (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Rocks! Wow you must have been one of the rich kids that I heard about when growing up. We would have killed to have rocks for doing our computations. Our parents would hit us with a switch and use our backsides for doing their fancy adding and (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) My third computer had two floppy disk drives holding 113.75KB of data each. This was in 1979. Each drive cost $600. (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek (...) Well, when I was young, we didn't have fancy-schmancy comPUters. We had to use rocks for all of our computations. And it took all day to collect enough rocks to multiply 12x12 and our hands would get (...) (14 years ago, 21-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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| (...) Ooooh - this can be a fun game. :-) One of my first (sorry, don't remember the order of them) was a computer I built myself. I ordered the 3-chip set from Intel (8080, the clock chip and the buffer chip), then used a bunch of SRAMS (no way (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Oh, we're playing "first PC", eh? My first PC had *no* floppies, just a cassette, until I added a floppy at horrendous expense. 80K capacity each... Foolishly, I bought 2. For the longest time, whatever year it was, a pretty good PC seemed to (...) (14 years ago, 20-Jul-10, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) Thanks for the info. I've always used perl scripts to convert oddly formatted data to a consistent format and then read it like that. Nice to know I don't always have to. If it could only read some of the more bizarre Fortran formats I'd never (...) (14 years ago, 12-Mar-10, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Hi! Thought this project would be interesting to the LUGnet community, hope I've found the right subforum. (URL) MakerBeam> is a project to build an open source metal building kit, like a next-generation Erector Set or Meccano. Instead of the (...) (15 years ago, 24-Sep-09, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, FTX)
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