[Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

[Russo, Frank R]

Bring back the Apple IIe I say.....lol

This is becoming like an old Monty python sketch...I remember when I used to get up half an hour before I went to sleep and lick the road clean with wet tongue !!!
Ay you were lucky.............


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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Robert Hind
Sent: Wednesday, 23 October 2013 3:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Another brick in the software wall

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
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Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
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From: Andrew Shortell<mailto:shortell at get2me.net>
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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<mailto: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.


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From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au> [sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au<mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au>] on behalf of Mark [mark at vceit.com<mailto: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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