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?
whups, 64K.
And that was a lot, back then…
This was my first ever computer:
Кворум (компьютер) — Википедия (sorry there is no link in English)
I was probably 9 years old but I have learned basics of programming on Basic on that machine.
Then it was a ZX 80 Spectrum. I think mine actually had either 128K or 256K RAM. Spectrum was a gaming console
Remember this?
Oh yes, I remember the days of Robocop of the ZX Spectrum all too well!
I remember how pleased I was with myself when I eventually complete it.
Jet Set Willy, however, was another story… I still get nightmares about the Jet Set Willy in game “ear worm” as I see Willy plummeting to his death due to a badly planned jump!
The youth of today, don’t know they’ve been born. At least they never had to put up with loading a game from audio cassette for 5+ minutes, only for it to fail with the dreaded R Tape loading error, 0:1