gemini5362
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Pat who would write malware and infect a computer with it then sell the software to fix the problem. I cannot imagine anyone doing that. How dastardly.
Security & Theft Securing tractor from theft
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I just read through this thread. Back to old computing things. For scale of hard drives. An early Univac shipboard computer system used a couple of Fastran disk drives. When mounted in a destroyer the gyroscopic effects of the spinning disks would interfere with the DD making turns. Now that was a disk drive. But the case they came in had guns.
dmccarty
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Somehow I missed this thread.... 
The first 5.25 inch floppy I used I think held 120, 160, or 180KB. Its been a few years. IBM had the 360KB drives. The first floppy drive I used was on a PET 2001. We had two in school. One with a full size keyboard. The other had a chicklet keyboard. Storage was on cassette tape. The floppy drive we had was loaned to us by the school board. To save a file took about a billion characters.
Same school used teletype printers using acoustic modems to the Honeywell mainframe. We saved our programs on paper tape. I still have a program somewhere on the tape. Not sure where I'll get a reader though.
I have locked up a stack of 8 inch floppies AND 80 column punch cards I found. I give them out to new hires and Coops. They look at the stuff in amazement. Also found a laser disk with code on it. THAT is even rarer.
The first hard drive I ever saw was 5MB and it was about 18-24 inches square and 6-8 inches thick. I am impatiently waiting for an 8GB SDHC chip to put in my MP3 player. Once the chip gets here the MP3 player will have 12GB of space. My Apple II+ had 8KB of memory and the PET 2001 had 4KB! The MP3 player with 12GB looks like its going to hold aournd 120+ CDs.
Amazing.
Oh, the subject was securing the tractor from theft......
Ah. Oh. Hmmm...... Ok. Right.
What I did was hide my tractor for four years in the woods. If they don't know its there they can't steel it or vandalize it. In case the tractor was found I would lock it up with Grade 70 transport chain around the axle. Twas not perfect but it was better than nothing.
I use my MP3 player on the tractor. And I have the tractor because I secured the tractor so well it was never stolen. The other computer talk helped me learn a trade which bought the tractor! See I kept the discussion wrapped together and on subject!
HA!
Later,
Dan
The first 5.25 inch floppy I used I think held 120, 160, or 180KB. Its been a few years.
IBM had the 360KB drives. The first floppy drive I used was on a PET 2001. We had two in school. One with a full size keyboard. The other had a chicklet keyboard. Storage was on cassette tape. The floppy drive we had was loaned to us by the school board. To save a file took about a billion characters. Same school used teletype printers using acoustic modems to the Honeywell mainframe. We saved our programs on paper tape. I still have a program somewhere on the tape. Not sure where I'll get a reader though.
I have locked up a stack of 8 inch floppies AND 80 column punch cards I found. I give them out to new hires and Coops. They look at the stuff in amazement.
Also found a laser disk with code on it. THAT is even rarer. The first hard drive I ever saw was 5MB and it was about 18-24 inches square and 6-8 inches thick. I am impatiently waiting for an 8GB SDHC chip to put in my MP3 player. Once the chip gets here the MP3 player will have 12GB of space.
My Apple II+ had 8KB of memory and the PET 2001 had 4KB! The MP3 player with 12GB looks like its going to hold aournd 120+ CDs.Amazing.
Oh, the subject was securing the tractor from theft......
Ah. Oh. Hmmm...... Ok. Right.
What I did was hide my tractor for four years in the woods. If they don't know its there they can't steel it or vandalize it.
In case the tractor was found I would lock it up with Grade 70 transport chain around the axle. Twas not perfect but it was better than nothing. I use my MP3 player on the tractor.
And I have the tractor because I secured the tractor so well it was never stolen. The other computer talk helped me learn a trade which bought the tractor! See I kept the discussion wrapped together and on subject!HA!
Later,
Dan
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gemini5362
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How early are you talking about. The first Univac systems I saw used paper tape.
David_Kb7uns
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Ok not to get too far off (like it hasn't yet) but how many hams on this board? Seams like there is a bunch that are also tractor owners, must be the tech skills that drive people to find a solution to get things done. On the tractor theft issues while not preventing it ,it would help track it down, have thought about installing an APRS tracking unit on the Kubota RTV 1100 that I have. Thought about an automotive type alarm system with ignition kill but the thibg is so easy to hotwire what would it be worth?
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There have been plenty of messages about hams here.
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gemini5362
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There are a lot of hams on here that are not necessarily ham radio operators. Luckily they have day jobs and dont have to live off of their comedy routines.
