Wake up and stop bitching about yer PC

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Some of you may be too young to remember this -
Anyone remember the Cray supercomputer? This thing was the size of like 3 cadillacs - and a 350 mhz pc can match its power!!!

The wonders of modern technology!!
 
I was using a Cray for awhile but was getting way too many dropouts/pops/clicks. There is a known incompatability between the Cray's and Delta products, so anyone considering using a Cray, be warned.
 
UniVac (the 50's)

My father worked for IBM in the 70's. Now that was a period in computer history that had "flavor" to it.

Can you smell the Hercules monitor's Ozone output?

Sniiiiffffff......Ahhhhhhh.

Think White plastic (like you'd find on a flight case) and tons of flouresent lighting. A mouse? What's that? :eek:

Onboard speaker was all she wrote.

5 and 1/4" floppy drives brother, back in the day when Floppy meant something. A CD who now?

Tape was very important back then too and a 20 MB hard drive was so big it was housed in what looked like a Cake cover.

Ram? 2mb was riding high on the hog :cool:

We had Pong and Tetris back then and by gum we liked it!:p

Carl
 
Bah, the Commodore 64 was cooler with its synth chip from E-MU. :D

I remember the days of programming tunes on my Sinclair ZX Spectrum where you specified notes by its frequency in Mhz and duration in seconds!!!

<shudders at the thought>

I think I'll get back to working on my tune in Home Studio 2002 now. ;)
 
I had a couple of Timex Sinclairs (uh, actually I still do:eek: ).

I wrote so many video games for myself back then, I was like my own Atari.

Carl
 
I remember when calculators could only add / subtract / multiply and divide...

...still had my slide rule........


Man am I gettin' old!! LOL

zip >>
 
I remember when we had to walk 20 miles in the snow just to get to the music store,and it was uphill both ways.
Thats the the problem with you kids nowadays with your fancy computers and your fancy internet.
You don't know what its like to carry a hammond b3 up ten flights of stairs just to do an audition....you're soft I tell ya, SOFT!!!!
 
zip said:
I remember when calculators could only add / subtract / multiply and divide...

...still had my slide rule........


Man am I gettin' old!! LOL

zip >>
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I still have a few calculators that use red LEDs for display (and only go up to about 6 characters:p ).

Back then a calculator would set you back around $100.

Carl
 
I used to multitrack by recording into my boombox, and then play it back loud while playing another track while recording on my sister's boombox....
 
I remember when we started programming, we didn't have those sissy windows and icons. We had to program with just zeros and ones. Sometimes we didn't even have the zeros, we have to use an 'o' to do it. Those were the days.
 
Re: UniVac (the 50's)

Krakit said:

5 and 1/4" floppy drives brother, back in the day when Floppy meant something. A CD who now?
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Geez, I remember 8" floppies on the PDP-11 (and we were still using that for weather balloon tracking in 1991 !).

:eek:

Mike
 
since we're trading stories.....

my first computer was a VIC 20 - we didn't even have a floppy drive - but rather a cassette storage device (that's right - it stored data on cassette tapes). it took a couple of minutes to load a 50 line basic program....
 
Nobody gonna mention punch cards? Now those were high tech. I love watching 60's sci fi movies and it's supposed to be a few hundred years in the future and they are using punch cards.
 
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