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  #1989810 6-Apr-2018 22:52
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When you exactly know the single steps to change/add a ECL memory "board" in a Cray-2 and how long it will take - far away from plug'n'play.




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  #1989957 7-Apr-2018 11:25
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Magazine with 'Dad's Army' cast on the front cover - funny they don't look all that old...

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  #1990976 7-Apr-2018 12:20
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Tinkerisk:

 

When you exactly know the single steps to change/add a ECL memory "board" in a Cray-2 and how long it will take - far away from plug'n'play.

 

 

You could get a job with the Terrible Foundation - they're going to use a bunch of Crays as a firewall



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  #1990997 7-Apr-2018 12:44
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shk292:

 

Tinkerisk:

 

When you exactly know the single steps to change/add a ECL memory "board" in a Cray-2 and how long it will take - far away from plug'n'play.

 

 

You could get a job with the Terrible Foundation - they're going to use a bunch of Crays as a firewall

 

 

 

 

A wall of lobsters? Nom.





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  #2021783 24-May-2018 12:45
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Heard OMD and Enola Gay on Spotify - 1980 - 38 years ago...38 YEARS !




“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

 

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  #2021827 24-May-2018 13:38
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shk292:

 

You could get a job with the Terrible Foundation - they're going to use a bunch of Crays as a firewall

 

 

They are CRAYzy and have no glue about vector computers - especially the effort what "Bubbles" would do.




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  #2021829 24-May-2018 13:44
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Your work colleagues automatically defer any DomPost quiz question involving the 1970's straight to you...

 
 
 
 

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  #2021845 24-May-2018 13:54
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Your first programs were written on punch cards





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  #2021930 24-May-2018 16:31
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You remember 'do not fold, spindle or mutilate' and you know what it means.

 

 




Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 

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  #2022087 24-May-2018 20:28
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You go to the local public library to read printed papers.

 

You've used a microfiche at the library.

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  #2022140 24-May-2018 21:57
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You don't mind a computing device taking a few seconds to boot up, because that's just like the valve radio you had as a child needing a few seconds to warm up.

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  #2022190 25-May-2018 06:44
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You meet someone born in 1991, which seems like five minutes ago and yet they are already 27...!





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  #2022196 25-May-2018 07:18
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When you realize that almost any single *.dll is bigger than the total capacity of the hard disk drive in your first PC.




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  #2022306 25-May-2018 10:20
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Tinkerisk:

 

When you realize that almost any single *.dll is bigger than the total capacity of the hard disk drive in your first PC.

 

 

Hard disk drive? What is that?

 

 




Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 

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When you're at the supermarket and the checkout operator recites the script taught at the team training session:

 

"did you find everything you needed today?" 

 

To which my standard reply is "oh - I've probably forgotten something - can you remember what it was?" 

 

Nowadays, instead of laughing or looking perplexed, the young ones go through my bags or look at the receipt, making suggestions, "you haven't got milk - could it be that?" etc.

 

I commend that they're helpful and sympathetic but this leaves me without an adequate response.

 

I need a new line.

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