@Ofnuts My thoughts entirely!
At the time, to work on IBM mainframes writing DOS/JCL procedures and FORTRAN programs did not seem so dreadful
To put everything in perspective, I recently made a short programming stint in a company, and discovered that someone there was writing Cobol to read XML files. Add a jar of Prozac to the array of programming tools…
I must add that, thanks to my interest in Linux, I slowly adopted it at work since around 2010. At first it was as dual boot along Windows. But now, since 3 years ago, I made Linux my main OS at work. I had to wait this long because 90% of my co-workers work on Windows, 8% on Mac, and the rest on Linux. As a researcher, I have to work on shared documents, in general from Word, Excel or PowerPoint, now I can do it more easily since LibreOffice made great progress with regards to MS Office compatibility.
Holy schmokes Batman, Red Hat Linux going to IBM for $34,000,000,000.00.
Big Blue Hat Linux anyone?
You said it, @HIRAM, that’s a lot of mullah!
I wonder how many Red Hat customers feel about the Big Blue Behemoth swalling the red fedora.
Especially given BigBlue’s track record with its acquisitions (Lotus, Rational…).
The one in my engineering school (late 70’s) covered a whole wall. The professor that taught us how to use it was convinced that the future would be hybrid analog/digital computers.
I heard that in the 60s, somewhere at Aerospatiale, there was a big building housing such a computer that was a simulator of the structure of Concorde.
You see way back in my day, we made all our beats on a Buchla system 100 in one of the university laboratories. It’s sequencer was formerly installed in Ken Kesey’s van.
I love the unique sound. That is what I go to YouTube, etc., for.
Nowadays they use computers analogas simulated with GPUs
Never to be outdone… My first computer, a sixties-era Ordinatron600 I got for XMas, with its classy wooden box. I still have it… one of these days I’ll fire it up…
My first actual computer was a SInclair ZX Spectrum.
Oh, first computers… Mine was a plywood box. In it, one would find a S-100 card cage populated with a Z-80 CPU board, 64MKb memory board, disk controller, and a 256k RAM drive (blazing fast!!). Alongside the card cage were two 8" floppy disk drives and a 30-pound power supply.
This, a Wyse terminal, and a 300baud modem got me through my masters degree. I finally got rid of it last year, reclaiming basement space. Sorry, no pictures, didn’t have photography back then…
A friend of mine had the white ZX80 you built from a kit.
She did build it.
I buy him to the 6 years, and was born in the 81 so it already was used…
My university days were filled with waiting until 3 am to get access to keypunch machines. Good times.
64Mb? On a Z80?