Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Zilog
CP/M
Full Screen Editor
Cobol
SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language)
Ada
Fortran IV
Fortran 77
Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)
Visicalc
WordPerfect
DOS
WOM (Write Only Memory) - Ok, that's a joke.
Apple Lisa
Pong
Basic
Vic 20
Commodore 64
KayPro ("A Jaypro?, no a KayPro")
DEC
VAX
Tracball
Dot Matrix Printer Epson FX-85, or if you were really cool, FX-185
Mainframe IBM 360 Computer
Punch Cards (Trivia: What determined the shape of the punch card?)
Spoiler
Old US currency boxes. Those boxes were available for use and subsequently original punch cards were designed around the size of the boxes.
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
11,334 posts, read 26,076,879 times
Reputation: 3995
Quote:
Originally Posted by plwhit
I just came across one talking about floppy disk:
The new Redactron text editor also uses the older, magnetic-tape storage instead of the "floppy disk" memory found in most new word processors
Hmmmm floppy disk memory, good one.
One of the machines we used in college (UNIVAC 1100-82) had a big Fastrand II drum unit. Think very large, very heavy drum-shaped hard drive that would walk across the floor and break things (and people) unless it was bolted down.
99 MB. In 1968. So much for mainframes being backwards.
I used punched tape on ASR-33's in high school, punched cards in college, and magnetic card memory on a weird IBM editing machine in high school, and the mainframes I played on both in and after college used several types of tapes including 9-track round reels and newer cartridge tapes.
Last edited by rcsteiner; 11-01-2010 at 09:50 PM..
Zilog
CP/M
Full Screen Editor
Cobol
SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language)
Ada
Fortran IV
Fortran 77
Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)
Visicalc
WordPerfect
DOS
WOM (Write Only Memory) - Ok, that's a joke.
Apple Lisa
Pong
Basic
Vic 20
Commodore 64
KayPro ("A Jaypro?, no a KayPro")
DEC
VAX
Tracball
Dot Matrix Printer Epson FX-85, or if you were really cool, FX-185
What? No Commodore "Pet?" No Amiga? No Sinclair ZX-80, ZX-81, Spectrum? No Timex-Sinclair computers? No TI 99/4A? No Apple II? No IBM PC jr.? What about the TRS-80 Model I and its successors? The CoCo (TRS-80 Color Computer)? Mattel Aquarius (does that even count?)? Osborne 1? So-called "high resolution" (256x192) graphics?
Actually, Charles, that was a good list, and many of the things I remember from my youth were included. Obviously, I thought of a few more.
One of the machines we used in college (UNIVAC 1100-82) had a big Fastrand II drum unit. Think very large, very heavy drum-shaped hard drive that would walk across the floor and break things (and people) unless it was bolted down.
99 MB. In 1968. So much for mainframes being backwards.
I used punched tape on ASR-33's in high school, punched cards in college, and magnetic card memory on a weird IBM editing machine in high school, and the mainframes I played on both in and after college used several types of tapes including 9-track round reels and newer cartridge tapes.
FIDO BBS, and BBSs in general (which housed early versions of forums like City Data)
Sysop
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
