[Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

[Robert Hind]

Great to hear you youngsters arguing about being dinosaurs :-)

The first computer I used, in about 1971, was a Fairchild Nova. Cost about $40,000 and came with 2k of, ferrite core, RAM, teletype terminal, paper tape reader and magnetic tape storage.

First computer  I used in teaching was a TRS-80, in 1978. My own first computer was a Dick Smith System-80 which I was able to upgrade to 48k RAM.

So I definitely claim membership of the dinosaur club

Robert Hind
Retired
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Shortell 
  To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List 
  Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:27 PM
  Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall


  no Kent
  unless you actually taught with them (like I did)
  you are merely a "memory"saur 


  :: greybeard moment #1: I used a Mac where the OS was on a floppy and the wealthy had two floppy drives so the data could be stored without removing the OS disk
  #2 I recall that at my father's work they had hard drives in a room and each was in a box 1 metre high by .9 by .9  and they EACH contained 1 Megabyte of data. Enormous (then)


  I still mourn the loss of Oscar the Grouch singing to me when I emptied the trash on my early mac


  Andrew


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  On 23/10/2013, at 1:46 PM, Kent Beveridge <kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au> wrote:


    OMG Mark...I remember the 'trash' 80 too! (Tandy)
    Way back in 'pre-teacher' days for me!  (had one on my desk!!!)


    Sooo, does that mean I qualify as a dinosaur???


    Kent.


    Kent Beveridge
    ICT Coordinator & Maths Teacher
    kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au


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    From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Mark [mark at vceit.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 1:23 PM
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    Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall


    The end of paid operating systems?
    http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/apple-ends-paid-oses/



    (Strokes grey beard)
    I remember the good ol' days when the OS came in ROM. As for EPROM... luxury!!


    In next week's Greybeard Moment...


    I waggle my finger at young people and explain how my 1978 TRS-80 with 4KB of RAM (yes, kilobytes, not megabytes) only had uppercase characters to save on storage.  A full ASCII set is a senseless extravagance, I tell you!


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    Mark Kelly
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    This sentence contains exactly threee erors.




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