Dirtiest Desk To Monitor Elio Progress!

Coss said:

Arrgh I was trying to ignore the fact there were 8" disks; those disks were such a nightmare with their whopping 175-500KB capacity.
I doubt if very many people remember when 62kb to 68kb was enough to hold a program.

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Yea, but they beat the hell out of reel-to-reel any day (going back to my VAX/VMS days here, and don't get me started on PDP-11's)

being retired,I have two work stations, one at home, one in our camper .... they are very similar, no transition issues .... my mobile office, shown below, is the one in our camper ..

bowers baldwin said:

Yea, but they beat the hell out of reel-to-reel any day (going back to my VAX/VMS days here, and don't get me started on PDP-11's)

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Wow, you're old the PDP-11's had just come out when I started doing programming at IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) we were working from remote terminals (teletypes, I was in Indiana) and using the 1" yellow paper tape to save on. You know what it's like getting a bin of the punch dots out of your hair and clothes?

Wait, while you got me to do a stroll down memory lane we're digressing, so it's

JEBar, go put some pants on before you blind all of us

Coss said:

Wow, you're old the PDP-11's had just come out when I started doing programming at IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology) we were working from remote terminals (teletypes, I was in Indiana) and using the 1" yellow paper tape to save on. You know what it's like getting a bin of the punch dots out of your hair and clothes?

Wait, while you got me to do a stroll down memory lane we're digressing, so it's

JEBar, go put some pants on before you blind all of us

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Wow, you're old -- Ouch, listen here sonny, back in my day we used RK-07 hard drives, that dimmed the labs lights when you powered them up, and acoustic modems, and I learned how to align floppy drive heads (something that comes in real handy these days) and we had SNEAKERNET... and and
and I forgot where I was going with this, oh where are my teeth?

Coss said:

Arrgh I was trying to ignore the fact there were 8" disks; those disks were such a nightmare with their whopping 175-500KB capacity. I doubt if very many people remember when 62kb to 68kb was enough to hold a program.

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OK, I got that beat. We used to use 5meg 20inch hard disks on our IBM 360 back in 1976. Yes, punch cards were the way.

We are very populated with monitors in this group! The top one is mine. The next one I crossposted for UserExec.
I think I'm a little ahead on uclectic, having Star Wars items and even the Intel Guy, who happens to be in Blue by the way. If you know why blue matters, you ARE a geek!

Ari's ucelctic Workstation: Yes that IS a mouse to the right. Go ahead, make my day, just ask why!


UserExec's World of Wonder Technical Workstation: ( yes you may rename it, I promise )

Oh, can I include my, under the desk, throwaway books I'm using for a foot rest?

Also cross posted for UserExec,

The UserExec Stoichiometric Blue Home Station:

AriLea said:

Also cross posted for UserExec,

The UserExec Stoichiometric Blue Home Station:
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Hmmm little square (sort of) monitors; yep the owner is a programmer.
Easier to write code on those than a wide screen.

Coss said:

Arrgh I was trying to ignore the fact there were 8" disks; those disks were such a nightmare with their whopping 175-500KB capacity.
I doubt if very many people remember when 62kb to 68kb was enough to hold a program.

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Hey, I remember when if you wanted to run a new program you changed floppy disk for the new one.

Truett Collins said:

Hey, I remember when if you wanted to run a new program you changed floppy disk for the new one.

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Yep, no hard drives, just dual floppy's. One for the OS, the other for the program.
Ahh what nightma errr memories that brings back.
Like accidently grabbing the wrong disk and overwriting something you worked on for 3 weeks.