[Opensim-users] Old computers - was Re: Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?

[John Mieske]

oh heck yea.. been a long time since I heard of that ancient technology...
hahahahahaha

just kiddin.. :: winks ::

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Heh heh - young upstart LOL
>
> I started on a brand new IBM 1620 in 1964! It was an option for my
> "Calculators in Engineering" course.
>
> Later I headed the project to put together one of the first "personal
> computers in 1972-1974. Well *I* think it WAS the very first - I just can't
> prove it!
>
> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/mod8/index.htm
>
> The one I was able to bring home for my kids to play on had a wirewrap
> backplane though, not the nice neat motherboard shown in the web site and
> York U museum. :-)
>
> It could play a mean game of Tic-Tac-Toe but not a lot else. We sure tried
> though :-)
>
> I had designed several of the MIL chips for the system earlier, this was
> actually seen as a way to sell those ICs. No one would believe that there
> was a market for these "toy" computers!
>
> Karen
>
> --- On Thu, 2/25/10, John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: John Mieske <johnmieske at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto-
> Assignment?
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> > Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:09 AM
> > You know back when I first started to work
> > with computers by building my first one in 1978, I never
> > thought I would see the day of 3D.. I am glad I finally
> > did.. :-)
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:56 AM,
> > Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > No, just
> > that MS has made improvements over the years LOL
> >
> >
> >
> > With a system running a single well known App and talking
> > only to about a dozen trusted web sites (banks, stock
> > brokers etc.) there is little need for advanced security.
> >
> >
> >
> > I DO use Firefox as the browser though :-)
> >
> >
> >
> > Karen
> >
> >
> >
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