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01-12-2007, 06:09 AM
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Posted By: Jim Clarke
Thought this might make a good post since we are are using a computor here on the chat board and Ebay. Without the computor, card prices would be 75% less in my eyes and card shows would still be going on every weekend. Picture from 1954 Popular Mechanics Magazine.... read the caption and marvel. 
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01-12-2007, 06:13 AM
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Posted By: mark
is that to steer the computer ship so you can have dinner at night. Just think what the computer will look like in 2057. Probably implanted in your eye and work off the brain. Don't laugh, it may happen.
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01-12-2007, 06:15 AM
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Posted By: FrankSutton
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01-12-2007, 06:24 AM
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Posted By: barrysloate
That's a terrific picture and I too wonder what that steering wheel does. I guess that is why Bill Gates is the richest man in the world; he had the foresight to realize everyone could have their own personal computer and it would become as ubiquitous as a TV set. Anyone remember the movie "Desk Set", with Hepburn and Tracy, made in 1957? Tracy had a computer that was half the size of a house, had flashing lights, shook violently, and bellowed smoke, all to produce a single sheet of computer data. Very funny to see it today.
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01-12-2007, 09:48 AM
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Posted By: joe
That brings back memories, when I started working with computers in 1960 at Standard Accident Insurance company in Detroit that is the size of the IBM computer we had. We also had the printers, sorters to create the reports. I used to sort 100 trays of IBM punch cards each month to print the monthly reports. The good old days Yeh.
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01-12-2007, 09:59 AM
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Posted By: Jim Clarke
My Dad started with Honeywell in the early 60's and was an electrical engineer. He built a home computor back in the late 70's which I thought was very cool indeed. I never thought it would become a way of life though. WHy did I not buy stock in Home Depot, Micro Soft, and Ebay? I guess I will keep investing in myself being self employeed.... JC
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01-12-2007, 11:05 AM
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
and have not used it since...........
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01-12-2007, 11:12 AM
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Posted By: Bob
Tom- I learned Fortran in college also. I was in industrial engineering until my senior year (because my dad was an engineer)when I switched over to being a history and math double major and going to law school.
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01-12-2007, 11:20 AM
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Posted By: Tom Boblitt
After the second semester! Of course, actually GOING to class and DOING the homework would have been a better approach but Que Sera Sera.......I'm sure you're glad you made the choice you did at this point as am I.......
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01-12-2007, 12:49 PM
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Posted By: peter chao
Guys,
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01-12-2007, 01:20 PM
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Posted By: Rich Klein
Of Election Coverage in 1960 on CBS; they mention the computer a few times and let's just say that it was kind of bigger than what we use today without the same "juice"
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01-13-2007, 03:44 PM
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Posted By: Joann
Yeah punch cards were a pain - especially if you dropped them and had skipped the numbering step. But they had the advantage that different people could work on different programming loops quickly and put it together by stacking the cards. I took Fortran in the summer one year in college so it was accelerated, and we routinely split the assignments that way.
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