[AT] OT - Malware blocking program

[Larry Goss]

LOL!  In the spirit of "The first liar never stands a chance of counting coup."  I have a plane of core out of an IBM 1401.  It's about of the same vintage as Admiral Grace Hooper's physical nanoseconds.

When we were at the Lincoln Boyhood Museum with a couple of grandkids this summer, I was tempted to launch into a history lesson for them on the size of punched computer cards and US currency from the 1860's, the Hollerith code, and BCD communication -- but the kids were already off to view other things in the museum, and they don't need additional excuses to think of Grandpa as "strange."

Larry

----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Merchant <kosh at ncweb.com>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009 0:10
Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Why, when I started out we didn't have one's and zeroes,
> we had to use L's and O's.
> 
> There were 8" floppies before the 5.25", looked the same only bigger.
> 
> Same notebook cover type stiff sheet plastic enclosure as the 5.25",
> almost always black.
> 
> I have a couple of them around here somewhere.
> 
> The 3.5" in the molded case were a huge step forward,
> haven't used one of them in a couple years.
> Earliest of them were ~700 KB, then upgraded to 1.4MB.
> 
> I started work in 1966 writing NC postprocessor software with
> cards and paper tape, used most of the progression of DEC
> removable disks like RK05 and the multi-platter cake cover disks etc.
> 
> First machine after college was IBM 1620, 2K decimal digits + 
> punch cards.
> 
> VT-52, VT-100, EDT, etc.
> 
> All C++ now....
> 
> Dave Merchant
> 
> 
> At 12:01 AM 9/10/2009, you wrote:
> >They were 5.25". Do you remember the expansion modules for 
> atari or
> >commodores? They were 32K and as big as a paperback. The 
> machines had
> >something like 16k built in and these expansion modules gave 
> you HUGE
> >amounts of storage : >).
> >Larry Mason
> >Hackensack MN
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
> >To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 7:44 PM
> >Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
> >
> >
> > >I still had my 80-86 and 286 machines sitting in the corner 
> until last year
> > > when they had one of those old computer pick up days and I 
> hauled them
> > > off.
> > > I've still got some, what were they 10",  floppy discs 
> around here maybe
> > > they were 8".  I can't remember.  I had an old 
> steaming tape backup drive
> > > too but never could get it to work right.  The hardware 
> worked but I
> > > couldn't tell that it was actually backing anything up or 
> figure out how
> > > to
> > > recover it.
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Roy Morgan" <k1lky at earthlink.net>
> > > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> > > <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 8:36 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [AT] OT - Malware blocking program
> > >
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Bob McNitt wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> Roy, one thing I'm very familiar with is PCs &their OSs
> > >>
> > >> We used them in the place I worked, also (Information 
> Technology Lab,
> > >> NIST) and though I was not responsible to get them to work 
> right, we
> > >> did run into many of the foibles of the systems over the years.
> > >>
> > >>> ... MS has pretty
> > >>> much dominated available business and general after-market 
> selections.> >>
> > >> It's true.  I started with PC's using CMP-86.  
> Not long after that, it
> > >> disappeared and MS took over.  The rest, as they say, 
> is history.
> > >>
> > >> Roy
> > >>
> > >> Roy Morgan
> > >> k1lky at earthlink.net
> > >> 529 Cobb St.
> > >> Groton NY, 13073
> > >> Home: 607-898-3607
> > >> Cell: 301-928-7794
> > >>
> > >>
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