My New Desk Top Computer

[Gizmo2]

Old Fart!



Hee hee!

First computer I was paid to support had 64K of torodial core memory, and it was programmed in octal from a maint panel (no keyboard).

I had a PDP 11 in my basement for years.

How about you?

David

"Old Fart" now that was funny! My wife said "what are you you laughing at" Payback is a *****.
I must be cause 64K core memory sounds like a lot to me.
Octal or really binary? Programming by setting a flip-flop with a push button was real programing. And today...........
..
Installed 2 PDP 11's back in......can't remember!

What about those 12" floppies now they were a PITA.
Punch tape and you had a real bit bucket that had to be emptied.

 

[EddieWalker]

Interesting methods to protect your hard drive.

This is my method for most everything.

Eddie

 

[MossflowerWoods]

"Old Fart" now that was funny! My wife said "what are you you laughing at" Payback is a *****.
I must be cause 64K core memory sounds like a lot to me.
Octal or really binary? Programming by setting a flip-flop with a push button was real programing. And today...........
..
Installed 2 PDP 11's back in......can't remember!

What about those 12" floppies now they were a PITA.
Punch tape and you had a real bit bucket that had to be emptied.

Gizmo2,
I meant for it to be funny! Glad it was recieved as such. :thumbsup:

Paper tape and punch cards, checked the bit bucket - Yup.

300 MB HDD the size of a DishWasher and we alighned the heads with an O-Scope - Yup

64K is all you will ever need, yeah right! The key was "torodial core memory" do you remember how that was made? Really it was programmed in binary, but the buttons were 3 white, 3 black, 3 white, 3 black with an [Enter] to load the values into register and execute. AN/UYK-20 by Univac...

The Old Old days...

Be well sir!
David

 

[KubotainNH]

Like mentioned, IBM pushed their desktop/laptop business to Lenova. They are decent machines. The T series laptops are high in the business realm and are very sturdy. My company has used them for years but is now switching to HP. The solid state drives are really fast and battery savers.

As for cleaning a hard drive, you can download Killdisk and burn the ISO to a bootable CD. The free version will only do so much but it will write all ones to the drive so nothing is readable when done. Good stuff.

Someone mentioned printers too, a year ago I bought a Brother laser printer for $150. It's now under $100. The thing is great, it does duplexing, wireless and is very fast and cheap to run. You can buy a refill kit for the toner cartridge for under the price of one inkjet cartridge and all the PC's can easily print to it. We have an inkjet for the now and then color printing but it's not used often.

 

[JB4310]

Someone mentioned printers too, a year ago I bought a Brother laser printer for $150. It's now under $100. The thing is great, it does duplexing, wireless and is very fast and cheap to run. You can buy a refill kit for the toner cartridge for under the price of one inkjet cartridge and all the PC's can easily print to it. We have an inkjet for the now and then color printing but it's not used often.

My first printer was $1,000. and my first PC was $3,000 in year 2000.

You couldn't give either of them away today, I tried

The printers are the prime example of higher quality/ greater capability and lower cost, more so than the chips/PCs

JB

 

[buck12]

We don't even have a home computer anymore. My wife and I use our iPhones for most things at home (posting this). We both have laptops we can bring from work when needed. Last year I bought my daughter a refurbished Dell laptop but she mostly uses an iPod touch. Eddie is right about the quality of Dell slipping. I buy multiple computers at a time for work and until a couple of years ago had almost no trouble with Dell. The last two sets of Dell laptops have been plagued with problems.

 

[KubotainNH]

We don't even have a home computer anymore. My wife and I use our iPhones for most things at home (posting this). We both have laptops we can bring from work when needed. Last year I bought my daughter a refurbished Dell laptop but she mostly uses an iPod touch. Eddie is right about the quality of Dell slipping. I buy multiple computers at a time for work and until a couple of years ago had almost no trouble with Dell. The last two sets of Dell laptops have been plagued with problems.

The ipod touches are great for the most part but tough for my kids to write a paper with.

 

[buck12]

The ipod touches are great for the most part but tough for my kids to write a paper with.

That is why we bought my daughter a cheap laptop. School work is about all it is used for. If she is playing a game or just looking something up on the Internet she uses the iPod touch. I don't miss having a home computer in that it is much quicker to check TBN, email, etc on my phone than to login and wait for a computer to boot.

 

[two_bit_score]

Really like my IPad 2. If I ever need a new laptop it will be a MacBook air.

 

[buck12]

Really like my IPad 2. If I ever need a new laptop it will be a MacBook air.

I keep thing about a iPad but I am too cheap.