I recall wanting a computer as a school kid,all my mates had Vic 20's,one had a SinclairZ80.I got a school holiday job and made enough to buy the just released Commodore64,it too had a floppy drive:):):):):).
Andrew
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I recall wanting a computer as a school kid,all my mates had Vic 20's,one had a SinclairZ80.I got a school holiday job and made enough to buy the just released Commodore64,it too had a floppy drive:):):):):).
Andrew
Back in the early Eighties, I was the Principal Technical Officer in charge of a couple of data centres, one was called the international Message Gateway and switched telegrams internationally. The other switched fax messages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
When I took over the Message Gateway, it was just changing over from a magnetic storage device called a Fastrand Drum to removeable disk packs.
The Fastrand Drum was a long spinning cylinder coated with magnetic material and the heads were driven along the cylinder by compressed air. It had a capacity of about 90MB.
The FASTRAND II
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...014/10/783.jpg
Disk packs went into a device about the size of a washing machine.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...014/10/784.jpg
The chassis from the Fastrand compressor cabinet is my arbor press and drill press stand. Some of the air filters and pressure regulators are on my compressor.
well I had a commodore 64 with the cassette and all I ever did was play Harvey Smiths show jumping and summer Olympics...:D
Imagine where I could have been now if I had actually learnt code instead :D
Just read this whole thread. Did not understand one word.
Carburettor anyone???
I have in front of me a fascinating little booklet "Zenith Carburetor (sic), Instructions for Operating and Adjusting", 6th Revised Edition, June 1919.Quote:
Originally Posted by stealth
Not just computers that have changed, and carburettors have been around a lot longer.
John
computer manual is easier going than that little number!Quote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
I attended the demonstration of a fax machine to the company but thought it would be useless without everyone having one. These days I still maintain a fax facility for my farm business but am always trying to get people to change to email.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
When our company first offered the sending of international faxes, it cost $10 per page. Customers would come into our Head Office and have the faxes sent. The fax machine was as big as a washing machine.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
The fax messaging centre we operated for a large Japanese electronics company - I think it was Toshiba but I can't recall. That was only part of that data centre's functions.
My first projects at university were stored on 5¼-inch inch floppy disk.
They were barely large enough to save a single project, than came the double sided ones that were exceptional for us.
The first casualty of this data storage medium was the mid-term project that vanished from the floppy disk on the way to university, most probably because I used to put them next to my Hi-Fi speakers or maybe because it was left on the car's dashboard.
Shortly the 8 inch FD was replaced by the more convenient 3½-inch that were bullet proof compared to the flexible 8 inch FD.
I kept a PC with a FD readers and some of these FDs to show to my kids when they grow up.
I think that the CD reign is ending and will be replaced by the Memory stick. What will be next?