The screen apologises for any inconvenience when I log in. It also shows:
"Last login: Dec 31 1969"
Adsense wasn't even functional that far back!
IanCP
8:29 am on Dec 8, 2015 (gmt 0)
Most AdSense employees probably weren't even born back then, computers were huge machines with literal transistor/diode/relay logic of limited ability, and PC's hadn't even been invented.
Yes, I'm one of the few who do remember the 1960's, and yes I WAS there - no matter the old saying.
trebuchet
1:18 pm on Dec 9, 2015 (gmt 0)
I was there too. The Honeywell kitchen computer (with 50 recipes pre-programmed and a built in chopping board) was made in 1969. That's about as close as there was to Adsense.
nomis5
5:53 pm on Dec 9, 2015 (gmt 0)
I love the idea of the chopping board computer with recipes - priceless!
The earliest I go back is the early 1970s as a computer operator on a 32kb NCR 200, the size of a car! I remember one fellow computer operator so strapped for cash that he mangled the belt drive on the printer. That caused it to over print endlessly and in the end necessitated a rerun of the whole night's work at over time rates.
One night shift he flipped his lid and kicked the front of the printer in. That was the end of his career.
netmeg
7:18 pm on Dec 9, 2015 (gmt 0)
I used to sell used DEC PDP8s; PDP11s; and Vaxes.
We're all a bunch of old -----.
IanCP
7:33 pm on Dec 9, 2015 (gmt 0)
We're all a bunch of old ----
Now, now...
Actually my first "real" computer I purchased for my electronics distribution business in 1979. It was a Honeywell with huge disk drives, and with software - cost me $54,000. TRUE
Putting that into perspective? A few months before that I had paid $31,000 for another home. The way I was able to set it up, it became super efficient and paid its way - over staff objections. For the technically minded it had a Motorola MC6800 or 6809E CPU and around 32 Kb of RAM.
On its first run? It punched out $270,000 in delivery dockets, followed by the invoices ready to mail in window face envelopes.
Them was the days.
Terabytes
9:22 pm on Dec 9, 2015 (gmt 0)
I used to sell used DEC PDP8s; PDP11s; and Vaxes
Used to Work For DEC in Chicago during that time period, basically one of my first jobs. (Am I that old now?)
londrum
9:59 pm on Dec 9, 2015 (gmt 0)
I'm just a youngster compared to you lot... I was around in the 80s. they used to teach us programming on a BBC Micro at school, and I had a commodore 64 at home. when i went into london's science museum a few months ago they had both of those in a display case, in an exhibition about the dawn of computing. That made me feel quite old! But i don't feel so bad now, cheers
