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Post by painking on Jun 26, 2009 16:39:50 GMT
Originally, the first computers were the size of a room, and they used vacuum tubes (not tubes from a hover)
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Post by vikingken on Jun 26, 2009 16:43:54 GMT
So thats what I was doing wrong.
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Post by painking on Jun 26, 2009 16:58:07 GMT
lol, will give the history of one of the greatest predictions at another stage.
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Post by judymcl on Jun 26, 2009 19:57:30 GMT
This story was written by my brother back in 2002. I've had it on my site for about that long I guess. His first job in the computer industry was at IBM in the mail room then moved on from there to other places as a "computer operator" then a "programmer". He hated programming so he went back to operations. His future wife was a "keypunch" operator. www.ruskinridge.com/clients/knowledgebase/63/Computer-History.html Funny thing is I never got into computers until 1999 and they had gotten out of them by then. They have a PC now but don't do near as much on it as they would a DOS machine.
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Post by painking on Jun 26, 2009 22:15:02 GMT
thank you for that
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Post by johnnybee on Sept 22, 2012 22:58:03 GMT
I remember going down to HMS President in Whitehall some years ago as escort to a prisoner who'd been caught and weighed off for using and supplying drugs - bloody fool he was. While we were waiting for the Regulators to sort themselves out, a two-ringer took us over to the cells area, which was under the main admin offices at the west end of the courtyard. To get there we had to walk right through a massive room, around forty yards long by fifteen wide, which had desks and chairs on the right - about ten feet or so - and the rest of it on the left was bank after bank of mainframes, all hooked up by bundles of cables a foot thick. The Ossifer informed us that "all this" - (sweep of his hand) - "is the most advanced computer system in the world, except perhaps for the system they have at the CIA". Apparently the power drain for that lot averaged 450KW over the 24-hour period - mmmm, wouldn't like to be feeding the meters!!
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