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Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sat, 29 Sep 2001 05:39:31 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Wayne Sardullo writes:
> In lugnet.trains, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.trains, Wayne Sardullo writes:
> > > > I think he only has a Mac (or did he get a PC recently??) and thus doesn't
> > > > know how to use a real computer, or programs (like MLCad) that only RUN on
> > > > real computers...
> > >
> > > Thats a truely interesting angle Larry. I always thought that Mac's and PC's
> > > weren't REAL computers but, toys for the folks who didn't know how to use • real
> > > systems like Unix/Linux ;)
> >
> > I'll see your UNIX and raise you S/390... (Can you program in 370/BAL)?
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> I was able to jump on the techie wagon at college
> and get some hardware troubleshooting time on an old PDP11..
I'll see your PDP11 and raise you a PDP/8, since we're talking old iron.
(MTU had an amazing amount of tired iron it got from goodness knows where)
Just to make the pot interesting I'll toss in an EAI 16... which you had to
bootstrap from front panel switches to get it smart enough to read the paper
tape to get it smart enough to read its OS from the card reader. Why they
called it a 16 I am not sure... because ours only had 8K of core and 8K of
drum memory...
And ya, I used to have some cores on my corkboard too. Two sizes.
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| (...) real (...) WHOO WHOO, To pay proper respect to those who probably know more or can code or even call themselves "programmers" I cannot raise my hand high, maybe peeking just over the heads of most. I was able to jump on the techie wagon at (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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