>> 80486? Some of us remember the Z80 and the 6502. ;-)
>
>    My first computer (if you can call it that) was a ZX Spectrum 128.

Mine was also a ZX Spectrum, although I'm not sure precisely which one. 
Probably the 16K version.

> That was quite a long time ago.

Thanks. /Now/ I feel old... >_<

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On 03/03/2012 12:44 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> 80486? Some of us remember the Z80 and the 6502. ;-)
>>
>> My first computer (if you can call it that) was a ZX Spectrum 128.
>
> Mine was also a ZX Spectrum, although I'm not sure precisely which one.
> Probably the 16K version.
>
>> That was quite a long time ago.
>
> Thanks. /Now/ I feel old... >_<

My first computer was home made using a GPO uniselector and a rotary 
dial. It could add and display the result in binary.
The first one that I worked on was a Honeywell 416

Feeling any younger now? ;-)

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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>> Thanks. /Now/ I feel old... >_<
>
> My first computer was home made using a GPO uniselector and a rotary
> dial. It could add and display the result in binary.
> The first one that I worked on was a Honeywell 416
>
> Feeling any younger now? ;-)

My dad's heating system is made by Honeywell. Who knew they make 
anything that uses electricity though?

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On 03/03/2012 2:27 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>>> Thanks. /Now/ I feel old... >_<
>>
>> My first computer was home made using a GPO uniselector and a rotary
>> dial. It could add and display the result in binary.
>> The first one that I worked on was a Honeywell 416
>>
>> Feeling any younger now? ;-)
>
> My dad's heating system is made by Honeywell. Who knew they make
> anything that uses electricity though?

You said that the last time I told you that I worked for Honeywell 
Computers. Maybe you are getting old and decrepit. :-P

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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>> My dad's heating system is made by Honeywell. Who knew they make
>> anything that uses electricity though?
>
> You said that the last time I told you that I worked for Honeywell
> Computers. Maybe you are getting old and decrepit. :-P

Thread: Hijacked. ;-)

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Stephen <mcavoys_at@aoldotcom> wrote:
> On 03/03/2012 2:27 PM, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
> >>> Thanks. /Now/ I feel old... >_<
> >>
> >> My first computer was home made using a GPO uniselector and a rotary
> >> dial. It could add and display the result in binary.
> >> The first one that I worked on was a Honeywell 416
> >>
> >> Feeling any younger now? ;-)
> >
> > My dad's heating system is made by Honeywell. Who knew they make
> > anything that uses electricity though?
>
> You said that the last time I told you that I worked for Honeywell
> Computers. Maybe you are getting old and decrepit. :-P


Haha.  It's just a malfunctioning loophole in his programing.

Btw, congrats on the hobbyist pioneer pc. :)

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Orchid Win7 v1 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> That's pretty sick, right there. I'm ancient enough to remember a time
> when drawing the Mandelbrot set at 320x240 used to take /several
> minutes/. And now you can apparently do this in realtime using an
> unoptimised scripting language...

Afaik, today javascript is jit-compiled in most browsers.

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On 3/3/2012 3:01, Warp wrote:
>    That's a quite long time ago.

One of my first Atari 400 (0.7MHz 6502) programs. In BASIC. I used to 
*dream* of it finishing in only several minutes. ;-)

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   People tell me I am the counter-example.

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> On 03/03/2012 11:01, Warp wrote:
>> Orchid Win7 v1<voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> That's pretty sick, right there. I'm ancient enough to remember a time
>>> when drawing the Mandelbrot set at 320x240 used to take /several
>>> minutes/. And now you can apparently do this in realtime using an
>>> unoptimised scripting language...
>>
>> That's a quite long time ago. Even in the era of 486's you could
>> draw a 320x240 Mandelbrot or Julia set in almost real-time. (Of course
>> not with any scripting language.)
>
> 80486? Some of us remember the Z80 and the 6502. ;-)

Still have my Apple ][+ in working condition. Just have to plug it in 
and hook it to a TV set. 6502 running at 1.024 MHz with a whooping 48K 
of RAM and 16K of ROM.

Alain

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>> 80486? Some of us remember the Z80 and the 6502. ;-)
>
> Still have my Apple ][+ in working condition. Just have to plug it in
> and hook it to a TV set. 6502 running at 1.024 MHz with a whooping 48K
> of RAM and 16K of ROM.

I still have an Amiga 1200 in working condition. Mainly because OctaMED 
is the only piece of software on Earth that I can find which can 
actually capture MIDI SysEx messages and save them to disk...

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