What is it?

SpudRider · 03-27-2011, 01:49 PM

Can you guess the purpose of the large object shown in the photograph below?

Spud

FastDoc · 03-27-2011, 02:10 PM

Early production BRP anti-gravitation unit.

midlifekrisiz · 03-27-2011, 02:11 PM

bet it is one part of a computer

SpudRider · 03-27-2011, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by FastDoc

Early production BRP anti-gravitation unit.

Wrong!

Spud

SpudRider · 03-27-2011, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by midlifekrisiz

bet it is one part of a computer

You are correct, MidLife!

What part of a computer is it?

Spud

Barnone · 03-27-2011, 02:53 PM

A IBM disk file with a whopping 5 meg of storage f I remember right.

JTCAndrew · 03-27-2011, 02:58 PM

Power Supply?

Barnone · 03-27-2011, 03:02 PM

When I hired on with IBM in 1967 we had massive 2311 removable disk drives with 7 meg of storage.

SpudRider · 03-27-2011, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Barnone

A IBM disk file with a whopping 5 meg of storage f I remember right.

You are correct, Vince!

It's 5 Mb of computer memory, circa 1956. 8O

Spud

SpudRider · 03-27-2011, 03:04 PM

Does anybody remember the 10-inch, floppy discs?

Spud

Barnone · 03-27-2011, 03:14 PM

I remember punch cards, key punche machines, sorters , collators, and accounting machines with plug boards that you used to program them.

I had a customer in Houston TX that ran all their jobs on the above equipment while their new IBM360 Model 30 computer sat idle. Took me a while to get them to convert to the mainframe.

SpudRider · 03-27-2011, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Barnone

I remember punch cards, key punche machines, sorters , collators, and accounting machines with plug boards that you used to program them.

I had a customer in Houston TX that ran all their jobs on the above equipment while their new IBM360 Model 30 computer sat idle. Took me a while to get them to convert to the mainframe.

My first computer programming class was in FORTRAN.

We punched IBM cards to create the program, then we fed the deck of cards into a card reader. We waited a few hours for the IBM mainframe to process our programs, then came back later to read the results outputted by the huge, fanfold printer. :roll:

The old IBM cards were color coded to ease program "debugging." For example, each program subroutine could be a different color. Your "data deck" could be a different color, et cetera. Therefore, once you found the syntax error in your program, you could sort through the huge deck of IBM cards more easily, and retract the bad card. Then you would punch a new card, insert it in the correct place, and run your "program" back through the card reader. After waiting a few hours, you would return, read the printout, and start all over again until you got everything perfect.

Spud

katoranger · 03-27-2011, 03:35 PM

And now you phone has more computing power.

FastDoc · 03-27-2011, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by SpudRider

Does anybody remember the 10-inch, floppy discs?

Spud

I go back as far as 5 1/2" I think. :roll:

TeamCheap · 03-27-2011, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by katoranger

And now you phone has more computing power.

I'm thinking a cheap calculator watch has more computing power than those early computers.

The phones we have today would be right out of star trek.(actually better)

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