What could a home computer from 1969 be good for?
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Who would have thought that there were any home computers at all in 1969? At a bargain price just above 10000 $. I found this one[^] in a computer museum, and behold what it was intended to be used for!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.and there was no record of one ever being soldNever underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Who would have thought that there were any home computers at all in 1969? At a bargain price just above 10000 $. I found this one[^] in a computer museum, and behold what it was intended to be used for!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.Well... I played my first computer games in 1975, although not at home but at school. The Altair 8800 was released that year. Sure, that was six years after the kitchen computer, but the 1960-70s were not quite as Dark Ages as we tend to think. After all: We did put a man on the moon in 1969. I haven't written a single letter by hand since 1975; we had a computer controlled IBM Selectric as an output device. (And later the Diablo, which sure deserves its name :-)) Add another four years: In 1979 I was developing computer games (although not as a living). I maintained all sorts of archives (letters, book/record lists, and recepies) on floppy disks. They were for use on a machine that handled 20 simultaneously active screen terminals. The machine itself was smaller than the stereo system of some HiFi-freaks: A single six foot tall 19" rack (and lots of that was open air!). Our model, a Nord-10, was released in 1973 (a 1967 model extended with virtual memory) as a competitor to PDP-11 from 1970. A friend of mine did have a PDP-11 at home in the 1970s. They were expensive, of course, but so was this kitchen computer. The main difference between the PDPs / Norsk Data computers and the kitchen computer was the exterior, the WAF: Few housewives would want to have an "industrial design" 19" rack into their kitchen.
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You spy on your poor cat? you know that this means that eveyone and his dog, from Mickeysoft to Homeland Security and the CIA now know about the poor thing. If you spy on it, it must be involved in something.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.CDP1802 wrote:
If you spy on it, it must be involved in something
Have you ever met a cat? Of course they're up to something.
Software Zen:
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Wonder if it had a Rolodex app for all those store mom's used to visit. And coupons...don't forget coupons.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
I am going out on a limb here... But those buying this device... Were not saving 5 Cents on Paper Towels with a coupon. Like they said, this cost about 3-4 new cars worth of cash. WOW. So, cars got more expensive, and computers got much cheaper.
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Who would have thought that there were any home computers at all in 1969? At a bargain price just above 10000 $. I found this one[^] in a computer museum, and behold what it was intended to be used for!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
Who would have thought that there were any home computers at all in 1969? At a bargain price just above 10000 $. I found this one[^] in a computer museum, and behold what it was intended to be used for!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.You could run Forth on it!
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You could run Forth on it!
Yes, that would work. Implementing a Forth system would not be so hard, unless that discrete processor has no stack.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns. -
CDP1802 wrote:
Have you ever seen something like that in action?
I have used them (not as computer terminal but as ticker). Last time was around 1993.
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Who would have thought that there were any home computers at all in 1969? At a bargain price just above 10000 $. I found this one[^] in a computer museum, and behold what it was intended to be used for!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.I guess the ouput went to some sort of TTY, maybe an ASR33, because VDUs were hard to come by in those days. I wonder if it was hot pan resistant.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Hey, don't knock teletype! It was the bee's knees, when it was all we had. I never used it to print pages, though; more for chat -- it was kind of a precursor to e-mail, but with faster response times, in that I'd type something (which would type itself out almost instantly on the other end), then whoever was on the other end would type something in reply (which would be typed out on my machine immediately). And it was an order of magnitude cheaper than the phone, for international communication. Maybe that doesn't sound like much, now that we've got the Interwebs, but it was a huge leap, back in the day.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
It was the bee's knees,
More likely you had paper piling up to you knees. :-)
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?" "You mean like from space?" "No, from Canada." If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
