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should have used magnetic cores

Old 11-27-2011, 07:29 PM
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So let me get this straight: Wayne, you were 21 in 1993?

That makes you 40 next year, kind of like my younger brother Chris-

::cough::

I thought you were some 55-something, wanting those BMW M1's! I actually saw a real M1 parked at a mall in Toledo, Ohio one day in 1984. I figured you liked them because you were around them when they were first built.

anyway....
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When I got out of college I used to sell Telex - Yep 50 baud data service.

Used to have a heck of time convincing people to use "store and forward" (what we used to call email) because it wasn't real time back and forward.

Set up one of the first companies in Silicon Valley with a 1200 baud dump of traffic that used to go to 16 of their subsidies in the far east - many of which could only receive at 50 baud.

Pretty wild - I still remember being called in to Sun Exploration in Dallas when they had one of their African exploration sites attacked. I was with the Sun operator on line when they were ordered to surrender their communication equipment.
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having to listen to ye old Teletype chatter out its characters was unpleasant but it was still a great advance over dropping a stack of punch card in a rain puddle on the way to the computer center
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Didn't matter is ya dropped 'em in a puddle or not...even on the best of days they sucked
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Originally Posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts View Post
One of these days, I'm going to go get an old Commodore 64 setup on eBay and set it up at Pelican and play some of those good old games that I used to waste a bunch of time on (I'll play some of the old ones I wrote too). I have a box of all of my old programming code and notes that I keep kicking around the back of Pelican.
Wayne (or anyone else), you can have this setup for the cost of shipping from Montgomery, AL. I was going to post that I had a fully functional C-64 system, because it was working just fine when I boxed it up c.1991. However, the power supply seems to have died from neglect. At least it's one of the "newer" ones that's repairable -- not the original design that was encased in epoxy. Note that the VIC-modem comes with an hour of both Compuserve & Dow-Jones Information service. I'm sure they'll still honor it.

I used this in college mostly as a dial-up terminal to the departmental PDP-11 unix machine, which, as I recall, also only had 64K RAM. Now it's just taking up space in my closet.



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Old 12-11-2011, 12:45 PM
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Didn't matter is ya dropped 'em in a puddle or not...even on the best of days they sucked
+1 on that for sure !

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