From here to...well...it SEEMS like an eternity

Wellard · Post by **Wellard** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:33 pm

Hey don't knock it I was still using Teletype(with tickertape) machines for communications when I was In the UK Civil Defence Organisation in the Early 80's.Some of us can even remember the the years BM(Before Microsoft)

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:46 pm

ORIGINAL: Wellard

Hey don't knock it I was still using Teletype(with tickertape) machines for communications when I was In the UK Civil Defence Organisation in the Early 80's.Some of us can even remember the the years BM(Before Microsoft)

Hey, i bought my first microcomputer in 1978, well before Mr. Gates had established his monopoly... [:D] My first real printer was something like the "keyboard" shown above, except that it was interfaced in strange manner so that the whole thing took up a large desk!! Weighed about 300 pounds (no joke!!) [X(]

Wellard · Post by **Wellard** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:53 pm

I also aqquired my 1st home computer in '78 (a VIC 20...no don't laugh[:-]) I'm conducting this conversation on my 10th

Nikademus · Post by **Nikademus** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:58 pm

ah memories....my first was an Atari 400 with a whopping 16K of RAM

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:06 pm

ORIGINAL: Wellard

I also aqquired my 1st home computer in '78 (a VIC 20...no don't laugh[:-]) I'm conducting this conversation on my 10th

Your 10th VIC 20?? [:'(]

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:12 pm

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ah memories....my first was an Atari 400 with a whopping 16K of RAM

Ha! We used to DREAM of 16K! The first computer I had access to was a 2nd hand Raytheon industrial machine. It actually had a core memory..magnetic donuts about 5-6 mm in diameter with a grid of conductors running at right angles that would change the state of the elements [:D]

Of course, there was no input-interface device at the start..we had to enter code with push button binary switches on the front of the machine...the routine was written in machine language...02E0 (hex) was "Clear Accumulator" for eg. [:)]

Later one of local geniuses built a paper tape reader himself and we were able to enter a BASIC compiler from the late Pleistocene.

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:16 pm

************************January 7, 1941********************************

*****Minutes from a Defense Ministry meeting on a request for more troops for Hong Kong*****

W.C. “This is all wrong. If Japan goes to war there is not the slightest chance of holding Hong Kong or relieving it. It is most unwise to increase the loss we shall suffer there. Instead of increasing the garrison it ought to be reduced. Japan will think twice before declaring war on the British Empire, and whether there are two or six battalions at Hong Kong will make no difference. I wish we had fewer troops there, but to move any would be noticeable and dangerous.”

rtrapasso · Post by **rtrapasso** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:20 pm

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

ORIGINAL: Nikademus

ah memories....my first was an Atari 400 with a whopping 16K of RAM

Ha! We used to DREAM of 16K! The first computer I had access to was a 2nd hand Raytheon industrial machine. It actually had a core memory..magnetic donuts about 5-6 mm in diameter with a grid of conductors running at right angles that would change the state of the elements [:D]

Of course, there was no input-interface device at the start..we had to enter code with push button binary switches on the front of the machine...the routine was written in machine language...02E0 (hex) was "Clear Accumulator" for eg. [:)]

Later one of local geniuses built a paper tape reader himself and we were able to enter a BASIC compiler from the late Pleistocene.

Are you channeling your people from 1945?? [:D]

EDIT: Even in 1968 we had paper-tape readers in high school, iirc! [:'(]

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:40 pm

Canadians to Hong Kong...just in time. [:(]

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:45 pm

ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

Are you channeling your people from 1945?? [:D]

EDIT: Even in 1968 we had paper-tape readers in high school, iirc! [:'(]

OK..you outed me...I am, in fact....Shirley MacLaine. I would have mentioned it earlier...but honestly..I am somewhat ashamed of my love of wargames.

ps...It was a donated machine..old technology..it came with what it came with [;)]

witpqs · Post by **witpqs** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:53 pm

ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

...I am, in fact....Shirley MacLaine.

I knew it all along. That sod just looked too good.

Wellard · Post by **Wellard** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:24 pm

Your 10th VIC 20?? [:'(]
 
 
Unfortunate choice of phrase that wasn't it. No this is my 7th PC(the other 2 were a C64 and an Atari 520ST

)

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:13 pm

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Wellard · Post by **Wellard** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:03 am

Over and above the civilian contract employees, the military population of Wake (almost 20 percent of whom were without arms or equipment) total 38 officer and 485 enlisted as follows:

Section, Officers, Enlisted
1st Defense Battalion detachment, 15, 373
VMF-211 and attachments, 12, 49
U.S. Naval Air Station, 10, 58
(without arms)
Army Air Corps, 1, 4
(without arms)
USS Triton, 1,
(without arms)

Source http://users.ev1.net/~gpmoran/WakeDefense1.htm

You can still see some of the Gun platforms and the Hard standing of the Pan-Am seaplane facility on Wake if you Google Earth it

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:18 pm

ORIGINAL: Wellard

Over and above the civilian contract employees, the military population of Wake (almost 20 percent of whom were without arms or equipment) total 38 officer and 485 enlisted as follows:

Section, Officers, Enlisted
1st Defense Battalion detachment, 15, 373
VMF-211 and attachments, 12, 49
U.S. Naval Air Station, 10, 58
(without arms)
Army Air Corps, 1, 4
(without arms)
USS Triton, 1,
(without arms)

Source http://users.ev1.net/~gpmoran/WakeDefense1.htm

You can still see some of the Gun platforms and the Hard standing of the Pan-Am seaplane facility on Wake if you Google Earth it

Right..so somewhere between late November and early December 2 sailors and 1 AAF personel found themselves on Wake. The sailor from USS Triton seems to have been seriously lost (perhaps he had a medical problem and was put ashore?)

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:30 pm

The Pan Am Hotel on Wake. I wonder if they had a water slide.

http://www.west.net/~ke6jqp/clipper/clipper.htm

Wellard · Post by **Wellard** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:18 pm

By the way Cap Are you aware of this site

http://www.pacificwrecks.com

It has loads of photos of sunken Nipponese Ships just to annoy your opponent with

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:58 pm

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Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:59 pm

ORIGINAL: Wellard

By the way Cap Are you aware of this site

http://www.pacificwrecks.com

It has loads of photos of sunken Nipponese Ships just to annoy your opponent with

Yes..I've seen that before...but first we have to sink something. So far, it is the other way around.[:)]

Wellard · Post by **Wellard** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:23 pm

Recruiting for the War Effort[&o]OK this didn't appear until 1942 but I thought it looked nice

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