All About Old Computers

[boomouse]

yan yung mga kinaiingitan ko computers noon..

Real Men Use DOS

 

And real programmers used Assembler

 

How many of you remember "load stack", "pop stack", "write stack"?

Edited November 12, 2007 by boomouse

[streakshooter]

wala na ako naalala sa assembly class namin.. pero i still remember my dos commands... :thumbsupsmiley:

[boomouse]

How many of you have been members of FidoNet? Wala internet noon and Fido was the closest thing there was to the world wide web. It was text based so you can connect even with a 2400 bps modem.

[boomouse]

From a computer museum featured in C/Net:

 

Commodore PET

 

 

Atari 400 and 800 with the casette tape drives, joysticks and game cartridges. Believe it or not, people were using this for business. Companies would run Visicalc to do their accounting on these things and they would really boost productivity of the accounting department. Tapos, dami pang game na pwede gamitin pag wala ang boss.

 

 

The Apple IIc with the one-bit, non-backlit, monochrome LCD display. Very rare. Only 10,000 were made because they made the owners go blind. Believe it or not, the screen was on when the picture was taken.

 

[romeobernardo]

anybody who remembers b/w porn on old DOS computers called Mandy.exe on floppy disk? if you have a copy pls msg me! haha!

[leviticus]

it's fun to read on this thread. hay.. malapit na ang year 2010. would you believe, my daughter wonders what the heck is a micro floppy disk. wala raw bang usb noon? hahahaha

[topher316]

lotus 123 +ibm=sossy

circa 1991

[zenislev]

how about wordstar?

[test1985]

natatandaan ko pa ung nagdra-drawing gamit mga symbols sa dos! pero sosyal na ako ngayon, ASP.NET/C# & J2EE na ako ngayon! bwahahhaha!

[zenislev]

"rats drown on wordstar"

 

 

it really takes savvy to use computers before . . . when you are faced with the blinking prompt i.e. C: or even A: or B:

 

i remember typing those batch programs to configure the DOS environment but nothing beats assembly or even machine language.

 

my first encounter with computers is Fortran IV level G with the IBM 360 where you have to write on coding sheets to be transferred to cards then you give the cards to a fellow who feeds them in a card reader for batch processing and then you pay for the printed output on a per page basis... I really have matured

 

I really miss programming where you use the matter between your ears

 

 

amen brother.. :thumbsupsmiley:

[zenislev]

So you can relate . . . ? Modesty aside, sometimes I feel weird/uncomfortable discussing computers with those who think they already know something just because they are proficient with the current popular OS and Office suite. A lot of hardware and software resources are not put to good use i.e. maximized because of 'mis educated' employees. Just imagine my 'awe' ... rather am dumbfounded with IT students applying for OJT in our office once I determine their level of 'sophistication' re. computing :thumbsdownsmiley:

 

:grr:

 

well for me, the latest is not always impressive.. one automotive guy told me, a person who knows how to drive may not know how to change his own tires.

Edited December 8, 2009 by zenislev

[boomouse]

how about wordstar?

 

Of course. And the Wordstar 'diamond' CONTROL + E, S, D, X. and to re-format blocks of text up to the end of the file: CNTL + QQB.

[boomouse]

"rats drown on wordstar"

 

 

it really takes savvy to use computers before . . . when you are faced with the blinking prompt i.e. C: or even A: or B:

 

i remember typing those batch programs to configure the DOS environment but nothing beats assembly or even machine language.

 

my first encounter with computers is Fortran IV level G with the IBM 360 where you have to write on coding sheets to be transferred to cards then you give the cards to a fellow who feeds them in a card reader for batch processing and then you pay for the printed output on a per page basis... I really have matured

 

I really miss programming where you use the matter between your ears

 

I can sympathize too. I remember MicroFOCUS Level II COBOL on the IBM PC XT that you had better code on coding sheets first if you did not want to waste time doing a post-compile debug.

 

How many times have you dropped a stack of cards? Most of us have but once is usually enough. After that one time you become extra extra careful.

 

You had to be extra careful about using computer resources like memory because even the newer minicomputer systems then like hte Burroughs B70 with its 5MB, 8-inch thick, 24 inch diameter disk packs had only 64 kb of RAM and you had better code efficiently or a lot of employees will be mad at you if their paychecks are delayed.

[palalat69]

I can sympathize too. I remember MicroFOCUS Level II COBOL on the IBM PC XT that you had better code on coding sheets first if you did not want to waste time doing a post-compile debug.

 

How many times have you dropped a stack of cards? Most of us have but once is usually enough. After that one time you become extra extra careful.

 

You had to be extra careful about using computer resources like memory because even the newer minicomputer systems then like hte Burroughs B70 with its 5MB, 8-inch thick, 24 inch diameter disk packs had only 64 kb of RAM and you had better code efficiently or a lot of employees will be mad at you if their paychecks are delayed.

 

I can relate too and still remember those days when I was still working as a Jr. Operations Analyst (only 21 at that time) on a mainframe data processing service center using Burroughs B4800/B4900 and Tandem Non-Stop systems.

 

Punched cards, tape systems, bursting and collating machine, tape degaussing..

[palalat69]

I still remember when two cards got mixed up and wasted a lot of printout. Instead of printing a table/matrix on one page, one row printed on each page . . . i expected a less than 10 page output but it turned out more, so I paid a lot more exhausting even my fare back home. That is just a simple programming assignment. Subject ES 26

 

What about dBase or Clipper programming?

 

After programming in COBOL sa mainframe environment, downsized to personal computer MS-DOS. Database programming na with xBase language.

 

dBase IV and FoxPro but usually kailangan pang install yung software sa unit ng user. Unlike Clipper na stand-alone executable na yung compiled program. Dami pang mga OOP (using TBROWSE function) routines.

 

Although Clipper ay wala na sa market, mayroon naman open-source version nito sa http://www.harbour-project.org/