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RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:33 pm
by 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)
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:46 pm
by rtrapasso
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(]
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:53 pm
by 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
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:58 pm
by Nikademus
ah memories....my first was an Atari 400 with a whopping 16K of RAM
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:06 pm
by rtrapasso
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?? [:'(]
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:12 pm
by 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.
More Brandy and Cigars
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:16 pm
by Cap Mandrake
************************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.”
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:20 pm
by rtrapasso
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! [:'(]
Inexplicably
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:40 pm
by Cap Mandrake
Canadians to Hong Kong...just in time. [:(]
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:45 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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 [;)]
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:53 pm
by witpqs
ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake
...I am, in fact....Shirley MacLaine.
I knew it all along. That sod just looked too good.
RE: Thank you Mr. Gore
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 6:24 pm
by Wellard
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
)
Wake
Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 10:13 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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RE: Wake
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 8:03 am
by 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
RE: Wake
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:18 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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?)
Fly the Pan Am China Clipper
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 2:30 pm
by Cap Mandrake
The Pan Am Hotel on Wake. I wonder if they had a water slide.
http://www.west.net/~ke6jqp/clipper/clipper.htm
RE: Fly the Pan Am China Clipper
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2006 5:18 pm
by 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
Its on!
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:58 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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RE: Fly the Pan Am China Clipper
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:59 pm
by Cap Mandrake
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.[:)]
RE: Fly the Pan Am China Clipper
Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:23 pm
by Wellard
Recruiting for the War Effort[&o]OK this didn't appear until 1942 but I thought it looked nice