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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

cmaleski2 said:
Apparently one item that came up today in the Trump-Putin call was a "Putin proposal for U.S.-Russia hockey matches (which apparently Trump 'backed'.)"
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Well, Russia is an athletics pariah so he’s gonna want some international stage to wave his flag on. If they’re tied after regulation, does Putin go first in the shootout?
 
We had a computer lab in college with dumb terminals hooked to a mainframe. I was playing a game in there when a friend busted in and told us that John Lennon had been murdered. We didn’t have a computer science major so my friend majored in math instead.

I had an IBM PC XT on my desk at my first job after leaving audit. I left that company and the new company had 5 PCs for 40 people, 2 of which didn’t have hard drives. We stood up a token ring network in 1990 and everyone got a PC on their desk. Cost $300 for a 30 MB hard drive for the 2 that didn’t have one. I knew a couple of DOS commands, so I became the network administrator, with Novell certification to prove it. The IT team had a Compaq “luggable” computer that I took home one night. But I forgot to create a boot disk for it, so it was just a dining room table centerpiece that night.
 
TRS-80s...that was my middle school PC Lab. Only one of the computers in that room had a floppy drive, the rest were hooked up to it via a basic network. You also could hook up the cassette reader to load up software. I remember playing basic text based games like Hail to the Chief and Westward 1847 which would take like 20 minutes to load up from a cassette tape.

We had Apple IIe s in my high school computer lab. Eventually the 'business' classroom of my high school got some PCs and started doing some work with spreadsheets and document software during my senior year.
 
I remember I had an old radio shack Tandy 1000. You used to ‘write code’ and it world record to a cassette tapes instead of a disk. Thought it was the greatest this in the world when I made this square box looking thing dance for 3 seconds
 
cmaleski2 said:
TRS-80s...that was my middle school PC Lab. Only one of the computers in that room had a floppy drive, the rest were hooked up to it via a basic network. You also could hook up the cassette reader to load up software. I remember playing basic text based games like Hail to the Chief and Westward 1847 which would take like 20 minutes to load up from a cassette tape.

We had Apple IIe s in my high school computer lab. Eventually the 'business' classroom of my high school got some PCs and started doing some work with spreadsheets and document software during my senior year.
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My father was a school administrator. He had seen these newfangled computers at the state teachers convention and decided our schools needed them. He was the grant writing king so our schools had a computer lab full of Apple IIe’s, paid for with Federal grants.
 
I think I gotcha all beat. First computer I played with was in 65 and programmed in boolean algebra and fed with Mylar tape. It did have a like 4k of disc and called Verdan for digital analyzer. Also worked on an analog computer. Second computer was in 67 and an ibm mainframe model 2050.
 
dwind said:
I think I gotcha all beat. First computer I played with was in 65 and programmed in boolean algebra and fed with Mylar tape. It did have a like 4k of disc and called Verdan for digital analyzer. Also worked on an analog computer. Second computer was in 67 and an ibm mainframe model 2050.
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My first computer was a pile of rocks. I put 2 rocks in and then 3 more and it output that the sum was 5. And then Ogg came back from the hunt with meat and the Elders declared that we feast under the full moon.

You all are killing me with your one-upping!!

(My first computer was tapes fed into something that churned out text on a dot matrix printer.)
 
I'm proud to say that I've never touched a computer or cell phone in my life. Never have, never will.
 
andyt said:
We had a computer lab in college with dumb terminals hooked to a mainframe. I was playing a game in there when a friend busted in and told us that John Lennon had been murdered. We didn’t have a computer science major so my friend majored in math instead.

I had an IBM PC XT on my desk at my first job after leaving audit. I left that company and the new company had 5 PCs for 40 people, 2 of which didn’t have hard drives. We stood up a token ring network in 1990 and everyone got a PC on their desk. Cost $300 for a 30 MB hard drive for the 2 that didn’t have one. I knew a couple of DOS commands, so I became the network administrator, with Novell certification to prove it. The IT team had a Compaq “luggable” computer that I took home one night. But I forgot to create a boot disk for it, so it was just a dining room table centerpiece that night.
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Was that a Compaq with the orange screen and a big ole, add on extra memory block?
That was the first PC I had. Useless POS for CAD since the screen was only that weird orange.
But, in the office, I hooked it to a monitor w/ proper colors.
 
Yeah, the only reason I was ahead of the personal computing curve in the late 80s was that our family construction/development company was a fair early adopter and I was able to pick it up pretty quickly. It was all IBM PC hardware because we built a lot of their RTP infrastructure and they helped us out with equipment. That meant I spent hours upon hours helping out veteran project managers and estimators convert from purely paper systems. We had "IT guys" but they didn't speak contractor, and we had contractors who couldn't speak computer. I had the misfortune of being able to translate. God, but that was an annoying couple of years. Thank Christmas our field engineering manager had the right combination genes and brains to pick up his stuff on his own because I was lost trying to do multi-plane plotting on a freaking TI handheld. By the time I was in my 30s, all that stuff was pre-packaged in neat bundles by construction software companies and we had a nifty mini mainframe chugging away. Amazing how quickly those systems evolved, even before mobile connectivity. Then it got REAL interesting.
 
LJG said:
Was that a Compaq with the orange screen and a big ole, add on extra memory block?
That was the first PC I had. Useless POS for CAD since the screen was only that weird orange.
But, in the office, I hooked it to a monitor w/ proper colors.
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Oooo ... we had a couple of those for the scheduling guys. Stupid suitcase sized monster with an 8" square orange screen. When we went to laptops, I piled those up at our warehouse and ran over them with a dozer.
 
NoMich said:
NIL. It's obvious that the ACC schools don't really know how to use it since how many guys jumped from the conference to the SEC.
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It's a process. No less than 6 ACC men's programs either hired a basketball GM during the season or have done so since it ended. It'll sort itself out in time. The bigger concern for the traditional powers to sort out is that the non-football playing schools have an advantage for a change. They don't have to share revenue with the bottomless bucket that is a football program so they can commit whatever their basketball revenue is back into the program without hesitation. Again, it'll all sort itself out over time, but the next few years will probably be pretty close to chaos.
 
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