Delay due to a needed software update
Aug 6, 2019, 9:32 am
#46
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That should have been bootstrap and IPL. Booting (and rebooting) is an abbreviation of bootstrapping (comes from the phrase "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps") - which on my old PDP-11 would require the operator to manually set the binary machine code, using phycial swicthes, one instruction at a time to instruct the system to load the OS from a Winchester drive.
Aug 6, 2019, 9:59 am
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Aug 6, 2019, 10:30 am
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We'd got BBC B’s by the time I did A level and I still have my BBC in the attic!
Aug 6, 2019, 10:44 am
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Aug 6, 2019, 11:06 am
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Aug 6, 2019, 11:26 am
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I did my O Level Computing Science (1979-81) using a Commodore Pet programming in BASIC where the back up medium was a cassette tape recorder located where the key pad is now..
We were allowed a maximum of 1 hour time on it a week to do our project work.
A level project was done using a phone link on a telex like machine to Teesside Poly. Dialling in was literally that - dial the number and when you got the tones slam the handset into the cups on the machine and hope the link didn't break!
We were allowed a maximum of 1 hour time on it a week to do our project work.
A level project was done using a phone link on a telex like machine to Teesside Poly. Dialling in was literally that - dial the number and when you got the tones slam the handset into the cups on the machine and hope the link didn't break!
Aug 6, 2019, 12:01 pm
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It must have been 1980/81 ... I returned from the Christas break to find my offices at NATS had been provided with computers and printers. No warning, no training, no manuals ... just the hardware!
My boss gave me a week to find out how this stuff worked. I thus started learning DOS, and Word for DOS, on my own, starting with that jolly flashing :C or whatever it was! By Friday I was able to give everyone a sketchy briefing on how to write something and then print it out on the tractor-feed dot-matrix printer to send to what we affectionately called the Typong Pole to be put on headed paper.
My boss gave me a week to find out how this stuff worked. I thus started learning DOS, and Word for DOS, on my own, starting with that jolly flashing :C or whatever it was! By Friday I was able to give everyone a sketchy briefing on how to write something and then print it out on the tractor-feed dot-matrix printer to send to what we affectionately called the Typong Pole to be put on headed paper.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:02 pm
#56
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Ah yes, the Friendly Manual.
That is what you meant I assume?
If that failed did you deploy the "clue by four"?
(The heyday of big iron was just a little before my time, I suspect I'd have enjoyed it)
That is what you meant I assume?
If that failed did you deploy the "clue by four"?(The heyday of big iron was just a little before my time, I suspect I'd have enjoyed it)
Aug 6, 2019, 12:05 pm
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It must have been 1980/81 ... I returned from the Christas break to find my offices at NATS had been provided with computers and printers. No warning, no training, no manuals ... just the hardware!
My boss gave me a week to find out how this stuff worked. I thus started learning DOS, and Word for DOS, on my own, starting with that jolly flashing :C or whatever it was! By Friday I was able to give everyone a sketchy briefing on how to write something and then print it out on the tractor-feed dot-matrix printer to send to what we affectionately called the Typong Pole to be put on headed paper.
My boss gave me a week to find out how this stuff worked. I thus started learning DOS, and Word for DOS, on my own, starting with that jolly flashing :C or whatever it was! By Friday I was able to give everyone a sketchy briefing on how to write something and then print it out on the tractor-feed dot-matrix printer to send to what we affectionately called the Typong Pole to be put on headed paper.
Aug 6, 2019, 12:10 pm
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It seems like you’ve all hijacked the post!
The OP once they land, will obviously be happy that you have all shared your memories from the 60’s, 70’s 80’s, 90’s etc
Can we get back to facts please relevant for the OP.
Thank You
The OP once they land, will obviously be happy that you have all shared your memories from the 60’s, 70’s 80’s, 90’s etc
Can we get back to facts please relevant for the OP.
Thank You
Last edited by BAEC; Aug 6, 2019 at 12:16 pm
Aug 6, 2019, 12:14 pm
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Aug 6, 2019, 12:16 pm
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The mods should probably put all the irrelevant posts into a new thread somewhere obscure since there is clearly pent-up demand!