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[docque]

Netscape!?!?!? The absolute best web browser at the time! It was stand alone and could render everything the AOL browser could, but faster. It was also the core of the first Firefox browser.

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Worked on an Autovon system that was built in the 60's.

What was that one thing called? Prodigy? I think that was it. Also, I remember we had a neighbor that got paid to put CDs with AOL on them in mailboxes. He would collect the cash and throw the CDs away in a dumpster.

Of course since I was Military I was on the Internet back before it was really public. How much fun was that to get anywhere?

[attaboy]

The mid to late 70s was the wild west for software. Microsoft did not originate
the Windows platform. Zerox had developed it and literally gave it to Microsoft (all 5 of them).
Zerox had no practical use for it because at the time most PCs did not have have enough power to run Windows.

Bob A.

[Fivecodys]

Atari 800 with a cassette tape drive. Spent hours typing in code from a magazine just to play a simple game.
I later converted that computer to run PACKET on 2-meters and was so blown away with how many digi-peaters I could link up so that I could watch radio-tradio live up in the bay area. Those were the days!

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Dang....you guys are a bunch of old farts! but thanks for sharing all that with me.....the 67 year old kid.

[docque]

Dang....you guys are a bunch of old farts! but thanks for sharing all that with me.....the 67 year old kid.

Hey, I am 58. I just worked on old tech. You know how the military is. New tech to them is 50 years old.

BUT, if you want to learn how a microchip works, core reeds and relays were the original microchips. We did upgrade the memory once and you could tell what was a one and what was a zero by the glow.

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Hey, I am 58. I just worked on old tech. You know how the military is. New tech to them is 50 years old.

BUT, if you want to learn how a microchip works, core reeds and relays were the original microchips. We did upgrade the memory once and you could tell what was a one and what was a zero by the glow.

Yea, I've dealt with a lot of old equipment in my lifetime. I started my electrical apprenticeship in 1977, in a Steel Mill no less. One of the processing line we had was built in the very early 1940s. Back then, they used "magnetic amplifiers" for control circuits on some of the DC generator fields to be able to control the output of the generator....which in turn controlled the speed of the DC motors.....some of them were 5000 HP DC motors....and no, that's not a typo....5000 HP. I still remember some of the amplifier that had vacuum tubes in them and the electronics guys took care of that stuff.

[uwskier]

43 years old here but a tech dork.

The worst was getting kicked off the internet when your sister would pick up the phone and start dialing while you were in an ICQ chat.

[traveldawg]

oh my..... too many memories; good ones tho..... core memory, punch cards, flipping switches just to load a bootstrap, having to enter code just to play a game, whew....

[attaboy]

Dang....you guys are a bunch of old farts! but thanks for sharing all that with me.....the 67 year old kid.

So true.

Anyone ever heard of an IBM 360 computer.
An even older computer was an IBM 1401, I programmed both in a language called Autocoder and SPS.
Bob A.

[ajg617]

So true.

Anyone ever heard of an IBM 360 computer.
An even older computer was an IBM 1401, I programmed both in a language called Autocoder and SPS.
Bob A.

Yup - cut my programming teeth on one. As of 1968, our state college did not have a Computer Science Dept but they did have a 360 for exclusive use of Math and Physics faculty, researchers, and students with those majors only. Took as many math and physics courses that required computer time as I could.

Anyone program Z-80 assembler? Never enough memory. Data General RDOS? PDP-7s?

After college, went to work at Ft. Monmouth when the Signal School was still there - you couldn't find any computer facilities on base - even with the Electronics Command there. We still used the old property book for inventory - anyone remember those?