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Post by ChrisK on Jul 7, 2009 16:57:05 GMT -5
Congrats!  |
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Post by resistor on Jul 7, 2009 16:58:34 GMT -5
D-oh, he's too fast.
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Post by newey on Jul 7, 2009 22:03:42 GMT -5
D2o is now our only "Mod God" in the new order of things here.
Well, I'd be one, too, if mine didn't say "administrator". Which is nowhere near as exciting as being a "Mod God".
Cute blondes won't have any truck with an "administrator". But "Mod God" probably gets the date . . .
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Post by D2o on Jul 8, 2009 8:39:34 GMT -5
Thanks, ChrisK, for your thoughts and your counsel to me and to one and all. Thanks, newey ... no dates ... just false advertising and accusations of immodesty. ... the chicks want to meet you though, Mr. Administrator and thanks, "( 8^(I)" ... it took a while to figure out that you are either the artist formerly known as Prince or this creature.  |
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Post by sumgai on Jul 8, 2009 17:36:47 GMT -5
Mister D2o and I have already exchanged words about his words. Some of them were "nice going, bud, now look what you've done!" or words to that effect.
;D
sumgai
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 8, 2009 23:50:18 GMT -5
I hate to admit that I know what that machine is. I used one in college. Mine had two core planes of 4 K each, which were separate (no common spaces). It had a monitor program called Focal that had ONE command; "Load Focal" from paper tape. That's all that it did. And as far as (8^(I), tilt your head slightly left and say "D-oh"  |
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Post by D2o on Jul 9, 2009 8:43:53 GMT -5
Thanks, sumgai - you have been begging me to stop posting here for years very supportive over the years.  ... kinda reminds me of my avatar ... and you are welcome to use it as yours, Prince. I mean Homer. Chris, you and sumgai have some years on my 41. My earliest meaningful computer related memory was a buddy of mine using a commodore or something and getting all fancy backing up his data with a cassette recorder and ever'thang, so he didn't have to program for an hour to get a ball to bounce slowly across the TV screen. |
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Post by ChrisK on Jul 9, 2009 11:47:38 GMT -5
I stole Homer from the FDP Forum.
Cassette tape. It was originally called the Kansas City Standard. It was 300 baud (bits per second). Commodore used their own format/protocol I think.
Back in the near beginning of 8 bit micro time, when I was building 8080 systems (system being a STRONG word) and had 2 K bytes of static ram (2102's - 1,024 x 1 bit), South West Technical Products (SWTP) came out with a MC6800-based computer. In Interface Age magazine, which lasted for three years mid '70s, SWTP published a "floppy ROM which was a 6" x 6" flexible vinyl phonograph record with a 4K and (gasp!) 8K basic interpreter that one tore out of the magazine, placed on one's turntable with two quarters laid on for mass, and copied to said cassette recorder and then loaded into the computer.
Hey, at least I wasn't using the 8008 anymore, although I still had the 4004 development board from the real beginning of micro time.
What a concept; the 8008. The stack was on-chip, but the program counter was off-chip in counters. Hmmm, a micro in an 18 pin low-power TTL compatible package. The clock on the fast version was maybe 20 uSec.
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