[Rhodes22-list] Missing link My Hot Key

Bill Effros bill at effros.com
Fri Aug 25 19:54:45 EDT 2006


"My first machine...?"  It was a mechanical computer, not 
electronic--you programmed it with wires and a "breadboard".

I also worked with a Univac, programmed an IMSAI 8080 (I think that's 
what it was--you programmed a byte at a time by flipping 8 switches), my 
partner owned an Apple II with a serial number under 2000--when you 
called Apple for help they put Wozniak on the phone--they never called 
back until after 9:00 because that's when phone rates went down in 
California (6:00). 

None of the "micro"s had disk drives.  They used paper tape and later 
cassette tapes.  The first IBM PCs didn't have disk drives.  Somewhere 
I've still got an original IBM DOS on a cassette tape.

I used to know the guy who programmed "Pong".  16 bytes of RAM.  (Not a 
misprint.)  That was one smart guy.

Bill Effros





Ronald Lipton wrote:
> Google says the 407 was an accounting machine - not a computer.  Google
> sees all knows all...
>
> Ron
>
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Bill Effros wrote:
>
>> IBM 407
>>
>> Bill Effros
>>
>> Ronald Lipton wrote: 
>>> OK, my first machine was an IBM 1401 - 
>>> http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/1401.html
>>> anybody beat that?
>>>
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> On Aug 16, 2006, at 7:45 PM, johnp wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm a bit slow and hunched over but I do know what a link is. Short 
>>>> for
>>>> hyperlink a link leading to an http (hypertext transfer protocol) 
>>>> page .
>>>> I've been on PCs since DOS 6.0
>>>> That slightly different color is usually bLoo. Microsoft is the most
>>>> unstable operating system there is. If you want stable try a Unix 
>>>> based
>>>> system. Linux etc. That's what most of the servers use that carry 
>>>> all our
>>>> email and host all our sites - pages - blogs and forums. Speaking 
>>>> of forums,
>>>> try this hotlink it's a little easier to aim you're comments to the 
>>>> right
>>>> party. I only stumbled across this, considering I have no interest 
>>>> in a
>>>> tiller cover and don't have an hour a day to read a long text mail.
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/Rhodes22-f14229.html
>>>> http://www.nabble.com/Rhodes22-f14229.html  I've got to go to take a
>>>> sematical and ask that wiki island guy, jeeves or sumtn, what a hot 
>>>> key is
>>>> now. Still looking for the any key though.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tootle wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> John,
>>>>>      You may be technically correct.  You may be sematically correct.
>>>>> However, I have been on computers since 4k modems and I have been 
>>>>> calling
>>>>> it a hot key since before windows 95 ( was that microsoft 32 ?).  
>>>>> Ugh.
>>>>>       We have discussed and referred to widipedia recently and in the
>>>>> past.  It is a relative newbie.  Just press the link and be 
>>>>> happy.  Find
>>>>> out how to search the archives.  And, there are other ways to 
>>>>> search, you
>>>>> just may be more expert so if you know you can tell.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ed K
>>>>> Greenville, SC, USA
>>>>> Addendum:  Microsoft is marketing the iLoo, an Internet-capable 
>>>>> portable
>>>>> toilet.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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