CadetStimpy Posted May 14, 2015 Author Share Posted May 14, 2015 Whilst going through some of my way to numerous boxes of stuff, in a sometimes seemingly futile attempt to 'down-size' all my crap, I came across the hand-held calculator I used in High School: In this photo, it's 'calculating' 2x2=4, and many other things simultaneously. Can your calculator do that? I bet some of you 'whipper-snappers' don't even know what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd00 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Wow, I'm no 'whipper-snapper' but I never had to use one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 Ha, no kidding. How old are you, Stimpy? 110? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd00 Posted May 14, 2015 Share Posted May 14, 2015 LOL I bet he was in the war. AM I RIGHT CADET! *sergeant major voice* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 Jason Carr said Ha, no kidding. How old are you, Stimpy? 110? :P No, but sometimes I feel as if I'm pretty close. I'm actually only in my early 60's. I suspect you guys don't remember these (some Drug Stores even had 'em), either: In the Army I worked on a lot of tube equipment (there was more modern stuff, as well). First thing ya checked was for a cold tube, 'cause if it was cold, it was bad. Discreet components, too. If ya saw a big, fat resistor that was charred and didn't smell very good, it was bad. How's that for high-tech trouble-shooting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 bd000 said LOL I bet he was in the war. AM I RIGHT CADET! *sergeant major voice* LOL! No, but I was in the Army. Went in, in 1970, but went to Berlin, Germany (The Wall was still up then), after schooling in Massatwoshits, instead of Vietnam. I was glad about that. Those beer-drinkin' Berliners generally weren't trying to kill you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippyshake Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Cadet Stimpy said bd000 said LOL I bet he was in the war. AM I RIGHT CADET! *sergeant major voice* LOL! No, but I was in the Army. Went in, in 1970, but went to Berlin, Germany (The Wall was still up then), after schooling in Massatwoshits, instead of Vietnam. I was glad about that. Those beer-drinkin' Berliners generally weren't trying to kill you. Is that you, Captain Jack?? O_O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bd00 Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Oooh, I bet the beer was nice there?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 I have to admit I'm a little jealous, Stimpy, I bet you've seen a ton of really cool technology develop over the years. Always wished I could have seen the initial stages of video games, especially. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadetStimpy Posted September 23, 2015 Author Share Posted September 23, 2015 Came across this photo the other day. The price was staggering ($20K for the 64KB model), but it was pretty new 'consumer/scientist' technology. This was before even I was using computers. (I came back from my military tour in Berlin, Germany that year). But one of my favorite 'early computer technology' photos, is this (description below photo): This is a photo of the first Hard Disk Drive (HDD) being removed from a cargo plan via forklift. It was about the size of an upright piano. It weighed over a ton, but only stored 5MB of data. Introduced by IBM in 1956, was the IBM 305 RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control). The drive had fifty 24-inch diameter storage disks. It could locate a single record in 600 milliseconds (0.6 of a second). While 5MBs seems like nothing today, it was the equivalent of 64,000 punched cards! The container could have held more disks, and therefore could have had more storage capacity. The 5MB limit was set by IBM’s marketing department. They couldn’t figure out a sales pitch for anything greater than 5MBs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Hehehehe, incredible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOS76 Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 We've come a great distance in a short time when it comes to computer technology 5MB of memory the size of a piano now they have 8TB 3.5 drives and I think 2TB laptop drives. I wonder what that monstrosity would have set your company back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckeenie Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Half inching the school desk as well was probably going a little too far. :P Really interesting tool. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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