OT: Who has the oldest computer?

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:08:58 -0700 (PDT), Portland
wrote:


You have me beat. I bought my computer in 2004.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
notbob wrote:



nb,

The Amiga was one of the first truly multitaskiing computer with a GUI
on it.

Visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_Boston

We were in Boston in 1987 for a MacWorld expo and took the museum tour.
It was certainly a walk down memory lane. A longer walk back in time for
some. Now, 2+ decades later the collection must have had a huge growth
spurt!!!

That was the MacWorld Expo where Bill Atkinson unveiled his HyperCard
RAD (Rapid Application Development software) to the world. The real
thrill was it wasn't a vision of the future, it was a real product and
was instantly for sale after the opening presentation concluded. Many
attendees literally ran to buy copies. It was magical and dizzying at
the same time! "Programming for the Masses" for $79 a box.

If Boston is in your future or present, put the museum on your list!
You'll have to ring them up for hours.

Andy
 
In article ,
[email protected] says...

According to IBM the 36 and AS/400 were "midrange". The culture IBM
constructed around them was a bit different from the one around the 3x0,
which was always locked away in a data center with legions of priests
and acolytes between it and the user.


Yep. And it's always fascinating how when the government "cuts the
budget" it's the small stuff that gets cut and the big stuff never gets
touched.
 
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:16:55 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:


I'm going by all the publicly available facts.


You use Netscape. Same thing.


You told me VIA email at one time, but it's not kosher for me to
repeat exactly what was said or not said.

-sw
 
On 18/04/2011 10:11 AM, Krypsis wrote:

I still kick myself over a laptop I returned when I retired. It was
supposed to be a mobile terminal but the modem was broken so I could not
use it for its intended purpose. About a month before I retired we were
all issued with brand new laptops. On my last of work I went down to the
district office to return all my gear, including the two laptops. They
asked about the old one. They didn't know I had it and were under the
impression it had been returned to head office.

I could have had a free laptop, a pathetically slow piece of crap with a
monochrome screen and one of those useless rollerballs. Of course, it
might also have been equipped with software that would have got me in
trouble if I ever went on line with it.
 
On 19/04/2011 11:40 PM, notbob wrote:

So then it would be more correct to call it a CLI (command line
interface) or, as Mac users know it, a terminal. All it's providing is a
window into the underlying operating system.

Krypsis
 
Portland wrote:

I would never defrag except in unusual cases (and absolutely never without a
backup first). Your problem is definitely memory anyway.

XP Service Pack 2 uses much more memory than the original XP. Now you
should have SP3 but it doesn't use much more than SP2. If you haven't
updated it, install one at a time, rather than jump to SP3.

The 2400 originally came with 256MB RAM but now should have an absolute
minimum of 512MB and preferentially 768MB. 1GB is better of course, but if
you have 512 and add it to your 256, you will probably see the same result
as with 1GB.

The other thing is to reinstall XP and clean out the flotsam. After
anti-virus and updates and essential programs don't put in anything like
Google Toolbar, etc. I never install non-essentials but it's even worse
when they are new versions of those non-essentials that were never intended
for an old computer.

Besides AV and anti-spyware, updates are essential for security. PSI from
secunia.com scans all your software and tells you what needs updating, which
is important for programs that don't update themselves automatically.


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On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 21:14:14 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
wrote:


Are you posting to rfc on one of them?

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 17 Apr 2011 19:24:50 GMT, notbob wrote:


But all your other capabilities are extremely limited.

Linux ain't all that. It does not make memory appear out of thin air.

A one time $70 investment and I don't have to worry about memory ever
again. You're just cheap.

-sw
 
dsi1 wrote:

be


dsi1,

If you have time, there will be an iPhone5 sometime in June, we think!

So if you're not too anxious, wait a couple months, imho. See what
happens!

Best,

Andy
 
On 2011-04-19, Krypsis wrote:


It might not have actually been a TPC1. Perhaps an Osborne or Compaq.
I jes recall it was that same basic configuration and weighed as much
as a portable sewing machine, as one poster sardonically noted. ;)

nb
 
On 2011-04-20, dsi1 wrote:


I know. I repeat it with boring regularity. Regardless, it remains
true.


Thank god!!


I'm sure they said that 40 yrs ago when Unix was born, but guess what
is still here and gaining more ground than ever.


And Windows is? I used it daily for 20 yrs. It's a freakin'
nightmare!


If they did, they got it from using it before M$ ever entered the
picture, on old Unix based networks, as I did. I learned Linux
entirely on my own or by taking classes and reading books, exactly
like I learned Windows.


Gee, I wish Ida said that. Oh wait! ....I did!


Heh heh.... but it's sooooo easy. Reminds me of this hilarious quote
I read jes today:

"Jim Zemlin, director of the Linux Foundation, is pretty pleased with
the progress of Linux and is blunt in his assessment of Microsoft: "I
think we just don't care that much [about Microsoft] anymore. They
used to be our big rival, but now it's kind of like kicking a puppy.""

nb (w/ hang-dog look while nudging gravel w/ toe and smirking...)
 
On 21/04/2011 10:51 AM, Dan Abel wrote:
Yes, 'twas a 33k6 that I had at the last instance. memory dropout for a
moment there.
75 & 110 were not, to my knowledge, used here in any great sense. My
progression was 300, 1200, 14400, 28800 & 33600. The job moved me on to
broadband (cable) here at home when they rolled out the cable in my
area. I might have used 56000 when traveling as my previous laptops had
that built in. My current laptop, and its immediate predecessor, have
never had their modems connected to a line and, since I now have WiFi
and a 3G wireless dongle, are unlikely to ever be used.

Krypsis
 
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 03:20:32 -0500, Andy wrote:


What does jailbreak mean? Are you talking about unlocking it or
installing nonApple apps?

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 4/22/2011 10:37 AM, Andy wrote:

Ain't that the jaded, tough talking private dick from J-Town? :-)

I remember some programs that was branded "Kawasaki" but I assumed it
wasn't the motorcycle company.
 
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[email protected] says...

75 and 110 were not too common after 1976 when the FCC forced the phone
company to standardize modular jacks and allow customer provided
equipment to be plugged into the phone line, but before that when your
options were to use an acoustic coupler that accepted a telephone
handset or to lease a modem from the phone company at huge expense, 75
and 110 baud modems with acoustic couplers were commonplace.
 
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