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That really is a blast from the past. I used to work for them in the City of London. There was an advert at the time - "Go Well with Shell". It didn't take long before one of our customers came up with "Go Bang with Wang".
Oric
GOTO
Assembler
Mag Tapes
Paper Tapes, Scissors and Sellotape
This referred to the bit of card that was removed to create the hole - they used to fall into a bin and were great for chucking around at football matches :-)
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lawman's observation:
Your mention of the word "chad" was the third time it appeared on this very page. :)
Abort, Retry, Fail?
were great for chucking around at football matches
Now that brings back memories.
Omigosh! There is such a thing as a fond memory relating to computers.
And, as for chad: it was great for throwing around. It became singular after the 2000 US presidential election. (As I noted above). We only have chads in the twenty-first century.
Someone mentioned dot matrix printers which made me think of the little thermal printer I had for my Apple IIe. It sure was quiet but don't leave your print out near a heating vent.
EMS - Expanded Memory Specification (EMS 4.0 or LIM 4.0 or LIM-EMS)
EEMS - Extended Expanded Memory Specification
HarryM
>>LQ800
I had an FX80 until 3 years ago. Was rebuilt by Epson due to extended warranty I had on it, so it lasted a really long time. Paid $384 for it in '85.
DIP - dual inline package memory chips (64Kx1 or 256Kx1- 1 bit wide. takes 8 x 256kx1 to equal 256k. I had 2 meg in 2 boards of the 64kx1 till it started over heating)
Desktop Plotters
Mouse Systems Mouse - Optical Mouse with metal mouse pad
Kola Pads
Stringy Floppies
Pong
Sprites?
High Speed Impact Drum Printers
PDP-11
Univac®
Sperry Rand
ENIAC
vacuum tube computers
OMG I'd forgotten about alot of those quirks in PCdom. Dip Switches were a particular PITA because half the time I didn't have benefit of the manual.
On top of the, one of the TaiBM EMS memory boards I had, the drivers said when loading…
‘Please working – wait’
So even having the book didn't help much. It wasn't much better than the s/w messages ;-))
After Mivox suggested a correction, I went looking for the text of the sketch out of curiosity, only to find this:
[c2.com...]
What a small world!
Sprites - Software and hardware version.
I Colchester castle theres an Apple IIe on show as a museum piece, now I know im getting old.
Compuserve's Competitor.
Filling in Data Processing sheets for the punch typists and waiting 2 days before your program crashed due to an input error whereby you correct it and wait another 2 days to see if the correction worked.
>> That really is a blast from the past. I used to work for them in the City of London. There was an advert at the time - "Go Well with Shell". It didn't take long before one of our customers came up with "Go Bang with Wang". <<
Hmm, a decade ago, I remember a computer magazine reminiscing about Wang. They recalled how, yet another decade earlier, Wang had attended a major computer exhibition and had huge banners everywhere that said:
"Wang Cares"
My first hands on computer use was on a teletype (no monitor, everything on paper) terminal in the hallway of our highschool. It was hooked to a University timesharing computer located 45 miles from our town.
And I don't know if there was a specific term for this other than "computer art," but in the days of fixed-font computer printouts and before graphical monitors were common-place, people used to print fairly elaborate pictures using nothing but standard ASCII characters.
And I always loved it when Batman would search for someone by shoving an entire Gotham City phone book into a slot on the Bat Computer :)
VisiCalc
Harvard Graphics
PFS:Write
Beta testing
Commodore
HeathKit
"why use more than two digits for the year?" - oh wait, people still say that.
Ska
As in having to line up the sprocket holes along the edges of the music-ruled printer paper with the sprockets in the printer? One misaligned sprocket and that was your print job b**gered :-)
WIMP
Integrated Packages
IV (as in video)
Videodisc
CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc)
PLATO
Timeshare? Isnt that a holiday thingy?
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