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Re: Computer power usage max 01-07-2008
Posted by Tom on January 8, 2008, 4:14 am
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 Andrew Mawson wrote:

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>>On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:36:07 +0000, Tony Jeffree
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>
>
> wrote:
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>>>>>I remember when we got four Digital laptop computers with
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> Windows95
>
>>>>>pre-installed. I, as the systems administrator, religiously used
>
> the
>
>>>>>provided
>>>>>utility to re-create the media just-in-case. 22 floppies per
>
> laptop :-(
>
>>>>>
>>>>>Mark Rand
>>>>>RTFM
>>>>
>>>>When I were a lad, the OS (CP/M) used to fit on a single 128Kb 8"
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> floppy
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>>>>disk. :-)
>>>
>>>When I were a lad there weren't any floppy discs - you had to load
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> the
>
>>>OS from paper tape (having first punched the program onto the paper
>>>tape with a blunt needle of course) ;-)
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>Tony
>>
>>Crikey!
>>
>>We'll be down to the stone tablet with hieroglyphics at this
>
> rate.....
>
>>Peter
>>--
>>Peter A Forbes
>>Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK
>>prepair@easynet.co.uk
>>http://www.prepair.co.uk
>>http://www.prepair.eu
>
>
> Well it was Holerith cards for me. Took ages to punch a program, and
> woe betide you if you dropped the bundle that was your program, as
> they didn't have sequential numbering (dahik !)
>
> AWEM
>
Writing the program name on the top edge of the bunched cards helped
when the ubiquitous rubber band broke and dumped the lot on the floor. :-(

Tom

Posted by Lester Caine on January 8, 2008, 3:33 am
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 Tony Jeffree wrote:
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>>> I remember when we got four Digital laptop computers with Windows95
>>> pre-installed. I, as the systems administrator, religiously used the
>>> provided
>>> utility to re-create the media just-in-case. 22 floppies per laptop :-(
I still have the floppy disk copy of the Windows for Workgroups development
kit - 60 odd?
(but I would not let any children look at it - the language used for some
comments would even get censored today)

>>> Mark Rand
>>> RTFM
>> When I were a lad, the OS (CP/M) used to fit on a single 128Kb 8" floppy
>> disk. :-)
>
> When I were a lad there weren't any floppy discs - you had to load the
> OS from paper tape (having first punched the program onto the paper
> tape with a blunt needle of course) ;-)

I can remember trundling over to Guildford Collage with stacks of 'mark sense'
cards. Black pencil marks for each hole to be punched! Usually two or three
round trips to get a working set of cards :(
Guildford had an ICL1900 with 16kb words of core store - 16bit I think so
switching back to 8 bit processors was another backwards step.

( So we are nearly back to stone tables Peter :) )

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Posted by Tony Jeffree on January 8, 2008, 3:50 am
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>Guildford had an ICL1900 with 16kb words of core store

16Kb? Luxury!! PDP-8 with 4K of 12-bit core memory was all we
had...(in a brown paper bag in the middle of the M1 of course, to
complete the Python reference ;-) )

Regards,
Tony

Posted by Prepair Ltd on January 8, 2008, 4:07 am
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>wrote:
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>>Guildford had an ICL1900 with 16kb words of core store
>
>16Kb? Luxury!! PDP-8 with 4K of 12-bit core memory was all we
>had...(in a brown paper bag in the middle of the M1 of course, to
>complete the Python reference ;-) )
>
>Regards,
>Tony

We have a few oldies in the collection at home, including a couple of Osborne
luggables, some (3)Philips P2000C luggables (later and much more sophisticated
than the Osbornes) some early Toshiba laptops, Epson QX10 in original boxes,
Epson PX-8 laptop, Epson HX-4 Laptop, a later Epson lappie (which I can't
remember the number of) and a few others gathering dust.

They all work, although we haven't run most of them for a few years now.

Peter
--
Peter A Forbes
Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK
prepair@easynet.co.uk
http://www.prepair.co.uk
http://www.prepair.eu

Posted by on January 8, 2008, 4:39 am
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> We have a few oldies in the collection at home, including a couple of Osbo=
rne
> luggables, some (3)Philips P2000C luggables (later and much more sophistic=
ated
> than the Osbornes) some early Toshiba laptops, Epson QX10 in original boxe=
s,
> Epson PX-8 laptop, Epson HX-4 Laptop, a later Epson lappie (which I can't
> remember the number of) and a few others gathering dust.
>
> They all work, although we haven't run most of them for a few years now.
>
> Peter

A fan of the Epson laptops myself I hope you still have the ROMs for
the PX-8 Peter? Mine was replaced with the later "twin 3.25 disk" one
that had a real screen and could handle Wordstar on one disk with the
dictionary (on line) and about 8 files on the other. All killed of
course by the release of Windows 3.11 that we all seemed to "need" at
the time. A bitter experience as my 9 month old =A31000 Mitac notebook
was rendered useless as I couldn't get the 4Mb upgrade for the ram.
Mitac's advice was "throw it in the skip we have run out of modules";
an experience that made convincing the wife that I needed another new
machine very difficult

Keith

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