OT: Who has the oldest computer?

[irenecooke2004]

On Apr 18, 1:44?am, Andy wrote:

==
I hope that you bought the new abacus with expanded memory...they say
that it is much faster.
==

[earplug]

Krypsis wrote:

Yikes, and I complained about the Toshibas they gave us. We'd
all break the rules and trade the 'laptops' in the parking lot because
they were so heavy to drag into the building. Of course, it was handy
when you could work on a bomb in the middle of the night without
having to go in, and they had that nifty 1400 baud modem!


These whippersnappers have no idea what we had to deal with. Hee.

nancy

[Hihey a???Pt. Deuxa??]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 01:54:24 +0000 (UTC), Nad R wrote:


Nope - you couldn't be more wrong :-)

Other than DOS, I used Ashton-Tate products (dBase and Framework) up
until around 1986 or 1987. Then I switched the company over to SCO
Xenix and FoxBASE+. Used various SCO Unix operating systems and
FoxBASE+/Foxpro for Unix up until 1997 when we started porting to
Oracle Developer 2000 for SCO Unix. Then I went to work for SCO
itself for a few years (Thelma Lubkin's, a frequent RFC poster here,
who's son I had known for years was instrumental in introducing me
into the company).

Then to Compaq where I worked on Unixware clusters, Non-Stop UX, and
Non-Stop Kernel. Then back to SCO and Foxpro for Michelin Tire.

I never used Windows at home on a PC until 2002. But I did have to
use them in the workplace starting in about 2000 at Compaq, but only
for email and to telnet into my Unix/NSK machines.

Technically, Foxpro for Unix was a Microsoft product. But it was
really Fox Software. I never used Microsoft software in the workplace
for anything productive and I never had to support MS products.

-sw

[i am nobody]

nb,

Cheerlead for linux all you want.

Stay there.

We'll stay here.

It's that simple!

Best,

Andy

[Reannon]

On 18 Apr 2011 01:58:52 GMT, sandi wrote:


OK. Your secret is safe with me ;-) I know you've been posting here
infrequently for a while now. Or maybe it was her at one time. But
you both use/used the same nick.

-sw

[Black Santa]

On 4/19/2011 1:03 AM, Krypsis wrote:


It doesn't take a genius* to see that the Windows OS has always been
saddled with having to be backwards compatible with the previous
generation software. If it didn't then there wouldn't be any need to
emulate anything. Emulators suck anyway. I never bought into the hype
that every new version of window was brand spanking new - not even XP.

The truth is that nobody fully knows what's in these fantastically large
programs. You can choose to believe that it's all new but I won't make
that assumption.

What's the deal? Is Microsoft all of a sudden really, really,
trustworthy? Are we now in bed with MS these days? Times have certainly
changed.

*Heck, maybe it does.

[halrosser]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:08:58 -0700 (PDT), Portland wrote:


Mark Thorson has the most archaic computer in use that is posting to
RFC. I forget the hardware but it's running Windows NT and Netscape
Navigator 4.6.

-sw

[Anime Kitty <3s Grimmjow]

On 18/04/2011 3:42 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
I get rid of old computers. My iMac is the oldest survivor at 10 years
of age. The rest are related to my employment or ex-lease ones which
have been given to me by the IT boys. Antique IT equipment doesn't have
the same allure as old furniture or bric-a-brac. It does invoke memories
however not to mention amazement at how far things have come and how
cheap they are now.

Krypsis

[Pinkchick95]

On 20 Apr 2011, you wrote in rec.food.cooking:

typing
services:
location.
by
Nextel


Roy,

Yep. Most comms are encrypted, trunked or both.

Scanning used to be a great hobby. Now, aside from some un-interesting
dispatches, I listen to the local school bus drivers for traffic
conditions around town.

Have you ever visited the FCC site?

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsS...chAdvanced.jsp

Used to be a daily visit for me, once upon a time.

I do observe the rules/law of scanning:

Don't repeat
Don't interfere
Don't profit

Best,

Andy

[HMV]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:42:23 -0400, James Silverton wrote:


This is the most up to date computer I've ever had. I bought
everything gradually over a 6-week period as Fry's never discounts
everything all at once. I paid about $400. Some of it was left over
from my old machine (DVD, graphics, IDE disk).

AMD Phenom II X2
4 Gig 1600mhz memory
1.75 terabytes of disk storage on 3 disks
(2 mirrored 750GB SATA 2 disks Raid 1 Duplexed on SATA 3 controller, 1
250GB IDE drive for backup).
2 SATA II DVD+/-RW's
14 USB ports (2 of them USB 3.0)
Firewire port
Nvidia 8600 GS (or GT?)
7-in-1 floppy bay card reader
Windows 7 home 64 bit (3-license family pack)
600W power supply
23" Viewsonic monitor @ 1920x1080
7 4GB USB drives
9 year old Antec case covered with stickers and grafiti.

ObFood: I'm making English muffins from scratch.

-sw