The Virtual Pub

Come Inside... => The Computer Room => Topic started by: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM

Title: 30 years on
Post by: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual. 
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual.

Bah! My first puter was a ZX80....  whistle:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual.

Bah! My first puter was a ZX80....  whistle:

Well, this was mine:


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beetlehook.com%2Fabacus.jpg&hash=1b8261f659c37c2e75f5c3ae37eb7c0d7fb02752)
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Barman on April 24, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual.

Bah! My first puter was a ZX80....  whistle:

Well, this was mine:


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beetlehook.com%2Fabacus.jpg&hash=1b8261f659c37c2e75f5c3ae37eb7c0d7fb02752)

Well, this was mine....  whistle:

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.nationalgeographic.com%2Fwpf%2Fmedia-live%2Fphotos%2F000%2F010%2Fcache%2Fhuman-brain_1001_600x450.jpg&hash=be02b27348c76e6b157424ecb8862e677c879c9b)
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:23:07 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual.

Bah! My first puter was a ZX80....  whistle:

Well, this was mine:


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beetlehook.com%2Fabacus.jpg&hash=1b8261f659c37c2e75f5c3ae37eb7c0d7fb02752)

Well, this was mine....  whistle:

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.nationalgeographic.com%2Fwpf%2Fmedia-live%2Fphotos%2F000%2F010%2Fcache%2Fhuman-brain_1001_600x450.jpg&hash=be02b27348c76e6b157424ecb8862e677c879c9b)

But that's not a computer! And, it's not even yours!! (unless you have a detachable cranium - maybe there's something LL's not telling us?)
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Just One More on April 24, 2012, 08:33:10 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual.

Bah! My first puter was a ZX80....  whistle:

Well, this was mine:


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beetlehook.com%2Fabacus.jpg&hash=1b8261f659c37c2e75f5c3ae37eb7c0d7fb02752)

Well, this was mine....  whistle:

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.nationalgeographic.com%2Fwpf%2Fmedia-live%2Fphotos%2F000%2F010%2Fcache%2Fhuman-brain_1001_600x450.jpg&hash=be02b27348c76e6b157424ecb8862e677c879c9b)

Have you found the "on" button yet  point:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:35:47 AM
Quote from: Just One More on April 24, 2012, 08:33:10 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 08:14:15 AM
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:12:36 AM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:27:40 AM
Quote from: Grumpmeister on April 23, 2012, 06:37:51 PM
This was my first computer, lost count of how many joysticks we went through playing Daly Thiompson's Decathlon  cloud9:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17776666)

I remember spending most of a day programming it to play a piece of classical music I found the code for in the manual.

Bah! My first puter was a ZX80....  whistle:

Well, this was mine:


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.beetlehook.com%2Fabacus.jpg&hash=1b8261f659c37c2e75f5c3ae37eb7c0d7fb02752)

Well, this was mine....  whistle:

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.nationalgeographic.com%2Fwpf%2Fmedia-live%2Fphotos%2F000%2F010%2Fcache%2Fhuman-brain_1001_600x450.jpg&hash=be02b27348c76e6b157424ecb8862e677c879c9b)

Have you found the "on" button yet  point:

Wouldnt make any difference - it's clearly unplugged! (unless of course it runs in wifi [think: 'wifey'])
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Barman on April 24, 2012, 08:49:29 AM
 cussing:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 08:58:39 AM
Oh, hello BM! lol:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: tel on April 24, 2012, 09:02:18 AM
Started as an op 20/3/1972 - Honeywell 1015 & 1250 mainframes.
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 09:17:41 AM
My own long time love affair with IT and Technology was kick started in 1968 when, as an RAF apprentice, I was introduced to the Elliott 803. Fed by punched paper tape and very basic, it gave me a 'thirst' for computing.

Subsequently worked on THE first IBM PC in the UK, and later, some of the very first document image processing kit as well as very early speech recognition kit (based on heavily modified IBM AT PCs)

Happy days  cloud9:

Now, sadly, being over the 'witching age', the commercial world sees absolutely no use for those years of experience - all they want are the 'wunderkind' churned out in their masses from the various polyversities around the place - all with degrees in applied bee-keeping or green-keeping or some such.

Bitter? Me? Never! (unless BM's standing me one 'on the house' out of sympathy!)
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: The Moan Ranger on April 24, 2012, 03:47:08 PM
My first 'pooter.


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimage.org%2Fpc6p611fp%2Fvideo_genie.jpg&hash=d70610afdfc4960a1e47d3c9332d81d0869b5c4f) (http://postimage.org/image/pc6p611fp/)
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Nick on April 24, 2012, 03:54:28 PM

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs14.postimage.org%2Fnw15nssf1%2Fdownload.jpg&hash=1bae9d92b028c7cee28ede7f89d92163631186b0) (http://postimage.org/image/nw15nssf1/) redface:


Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Barman on April 24, 2012, 04:05:51 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger (Orderer of the Young's) on April 24, 2012, 03:47:08 PM
My first 'pooter.


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimage.org%2Fpc6p611fp%2Fvideo_genie.jpg&hash=d70610afdfc4960a1e47d3c9332d81d0869b5c4f) (http://postimage.org/image/pc6p611fp/)

A real keyboard! worthy:


 
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 05:28:09 PM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 04:05:51 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger (Orderer of the Young's) on April 24, 2012, 03:47:08 PM
My first 'pooter.


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimage.org%2Fpc6p611fp%2Fvideo_genie.jpg&hash=d70610afdfc4960a1e47d3c9332d81d0869b5c4f) (http://postimage.org/image/pc6p611fp/)

A real keyboard! worthy:

Noes!!!!

 THIS  (http://www.beetlehook.com/typewriter.jpg) is a real keyboard!
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 24, 2012, 05:36:24 PM
This was my first computer

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F2.bp.blogspot.com%2F_otfwl2zc6Qc%2FShX5MJ_W2pI%2FAAAAAAAAKKE%2F1kFR8LumuVc%2Fs400%2Fhp35calculator.jpg&hash=9b36d53258acf1bdb4b94f01480111dae4655cd9)
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Pastis on April 24, 2012, 05:38:41 PM
(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tcf.ua.edu%2FAZ%2FSlideRule.jpg&hash=24e9668fa17c8d6d0e2a895f55056e0e90a7253c)

 razz:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Nick on April 24, 2012, 05:39:28 PM
Miss D is too young to remember those  noooo:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:41:25 PM
Quote from: Marley's Ghost (Imbiber of Spirits) on April 24, 2012, 05:28:09 PM
Quote from: Barman on April 24, 2012, 04:05:51 PM
Quote from: The Moan Ranger (Orderer of the Young's) on April 24, 2012, 03:47:08 PM
My first 'pooter.


(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs18.postimage.org%2Fpc6p611fp%2Fvideo_genie.jpg&hash=d70610afdfc4960a1e47d3c9332d81d0869b5c4f) (http://postimage.org/image/pc6p611fp/)

A real keyboard! worthy:

Noes!!!!

 THIS  (http://www.beetlehook.com/typewriter.jpg) is a real keyboard!

Noes... that is an typewriter...   ::)

I did own a Dragon 32 after the ZX80...

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classiccmp.org%2Fdunfield%2Fcoco%2Fh%2Fdragon32.jpg&hash=38247025ae26c024f659a4fc58991d9fa3c93526)

Which had a real keyboard...

Then at work they had a Silent 700...

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.computinghistory.org.uk%2Fuserdata%2Fimages%2Fmedium%2FPRODTHM-14411.jpg&hash=7ecf0c50a292000a6f02296bfeb3ab1abccdea6c)

Then I went to work for a company that sold Motorola EXORmacs and Zilog Z8000 development systems...

The first real computer I ever got to grips with was a HP85

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mci.org.br%2Fmicro%2Foutros%2Fhp85_01.jpg&hash=f06dbd75fd3e55c20793e411e4b7f9bf0543f2b4)

and then the 68K based 9816

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.old-computers.com%2Fmuseum%2Fphotos%2FHP_9816_System_1.jpg&hash=c280ae9818d2c9180d81d3cbcf4452aeacc20b73)

That was long before IBM even thought of the PC of course...  whistle:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Nick on April 24, 2012, 05:42:27 PM
 sleep017
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 24, 2012, 05:45:32 PM
Has he stopped yet ?  sleep021
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Nick on April 24, 2012, 05:46:50 PM
I supervised the UK  launch of the word processor for IBM in 1978  angel1
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Snoopy on April 24, 2012, 05:49:29 PM
Paper and pencil was all I had  sad24:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Barman on April 24, 2012, 05:50:15 PM
Quote from: Nick (GC First Class) on April 24, 2012, 05:46:50 PM
I supervised the UK  launch of the word processor for IBM in 1978  angel1

 sleep017

I was invited to a preview of the Apple Lisa which preceded the Mac....

(https://www.virtual-pub.com/SMF/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fimages_blogs%2Fthisdayintech%2F2010%2F01%2Fapplelisa1983102634506fclg.jpg&hash=368b5941e9e36385ec9d4124ab9e997ad44054c3)

Shite...  noooo:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Miss Demeanour on April 24, 2012, 05:51:32 PM
Quote from: Nick (GC First Class) on April 24, 2012, 05:46:50 PM
I supervised the UK  launch of the word processor for IBM in 1978  angel1

I freed Nelson Mandela in 1988  whistle:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Snoopy on April 24, 2012, 05:53:48 PM
 shutup:
Quote from: Miss Demeanour on April 24, 2012, 05:51:32 PM
Quote from: Nick (GC First Class) on April 24, 2012, 05:46:50 PM
I supervised the UK  launch of the word processor for IBM in 1978  angel1

I freed Nelson Mandela in 1988  whistle:

 shutup:
Title: Re: 30 years on
Post by: Grumpmeister on April 24, 2012, 08:52:16 PM
Quote from: Miss Demeanour on April 24, 2012, 05:45:32 PM
Has he stopped yet ?  sleep021

He's the Duracell droning bunny  whistle: