Standard Equipment And Options

[bowers baldwin]

We still were using the PDP-8s into the 90s in the Coast Guard. They were running some LORAN equipment.

UGH!, PDP-11's I could see, but 8's from the mid 60's, yikes, where did they get parts from? oh wait, government operation, they ordered 5 of everything I guess..

 

[Muzhik]

"Ensign! Target that thing and destroy it before it hits the city!"
"Captain! The controller is offline and the connection to the TV is flakey! We have to reboot the system! Recommend we send in our Elio Exo-Indo Airfighters to divert the Engine of Destruction!"
"Make it so!"

(YESSS! And the Kid brings it back on topic with the Ultimate Elio Option! )

 

[Muzhik]

There was a brief time Radio Shack was selling both a T-4, a T-8 and a T-16 model computer before the Atari came out with it's first Pong video game. Of course, being in SE Texas, we may have gotten the advanced computers late in the game.

Of course, Radio Shack was selling them, but Texas Instruments may have been the manufacturer.

When I was in grad school, I thought long and hard about buying a spanking-new Model 100. It was massively popular with journalists because it ran on 4 "AA" batteries, had an internal 300-baud modem, and a 40-character LCD text display with a built-in "word processor". It would have let me do my homework at home dialed into the University's systems, without having to trek into the University and leave when the computer center closed.

 

[Muzhik]

Sorry, but with a TRS80 Model 1 Level 1 bought new in fall of 1977 I think I have you beat.
I was using it to design band pass filters optimized for cheap readily available components.
It was a lot easier to do the formula and keep running it substituting values than manually calculating each version.

Puuh-LEASE! The TRS-80 came with a monitor. You had to use a TV for the TS-1000 monitor. We had a nuclear physicist who used his for calculating massive multivariable equations. He'd put in the values, start the program (which he wrote himself) turn off the monitor, and come back in a few days to find the answers. He didn't need the answers right away and he didn't need to pay for University computer time.

(Uh-oh! Cheese it! Here comes the forum admin! )

 

[Thomas Maule]

 

[NSTG8R]

Alternative to the Skyzmatic system for those on a budget.

 

[CrimsonEclipse]

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Still have my Ataris hooked up, using Atari APE on PC as a hard drive with 100's of games on tap..
P.S. ran Ace base BBS on an MPP 1000c modem for many years before switching to F.o.R.e.M.

-SysOp-

ATDT

Like a gang sign for nerds.....

 

[Coss]

**NOTE***
I'm going to do my best to try (I said try) to keep really off topic replies to the areas they belong in; that's why I started the new thread.
"All Things Geek" in the General Discussion heading.

I'm actually going to try leading by example because we all do it.

I'm just want to clean up current topics that are active a little cleaner.

Thanks for your cooperation.

Coss

 

[Anderson Howard]

"Ensign! Target that thing and destroy it before it hits the city!"
"Captain! The controller is offline and the connection to the TV is flakey! We have to reboot the system! Recommend we send in our Elio Exo-Indo Airfighters to divert the Engine of Destruction!"
"Make it so!"

(YESSS! And the Kid brings it back on topic with the Ultimate Elio Option! )

Just after this crash Westinghouse invented air brakes.

 

[Muzhik]

OH, sure! You can TRY to herd us into a common thread! But we're ELIO FANS!!! We are rebels and non-conformists! You may as well try to herd cats! BIG cats! Not those wimpy Maine Coons! Not those conniving Calicoes! Not ...

... Seriously? A 3B2-300?

... Hmmm ...

I'll be back in a couple ...