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01-09-21, 10:33 AM
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Big package with tiny display.
01-09-21, 11:04 PM
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I thought my TI52 was the cat’s meow.
Sine, cosine and tangent.
My son had to have a graphing calculator in high school.
I think there’s an app for that now.
I remember the FAA computer in the mid-80’s was about the size of a rolling suitcase. Sort of a dot matrix printer for flight strips.
My coop job in college used an AT286, then a 386, and we sent our documents to be printed in ASCII, or something. We saved them on big floppies.
We had “portable” Compaqs that had 2 halves that came apart. About 35 lbs.
If I remember, my first Windows was on something like 22 diskettes.
Later, wanting to know more, I picked up a Tandy 1000 at a yard sale, and then bought a Gateway in 1996 for over $3000. 3G hard drive and a 17” monitor that had to be 45 lbs.
01-10-21, 09:05 AM
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Killed the Bowman Brain market.
I thought my TI52 was the cat’s meow.
Sine, cosine and tangent.
My son had to have a graphing calculator in high school.
I think there’s an app for that now.
I remember the FAA computer in the mid-80’s was about the size of a rolling suitcase. Sort of a dot matrix printer for flight strips.
My coop job in college used an AT286, then a 386, and we sent our documents to be printed in ASCII, or something. We saved them on big floppies.
We had “portable” Compaqs that had 2 halves that came apart. About 35 lbs.
If I remember, my first Windows was on something like 22 diskettes.
Later, wanting to know more, I picked up a Tandy 1000 at a yard sale, and then bought a Gateway in 1996 for over $3000. 3G hard drive and a 17” monitor that had to be 45 lbs.
I thought my TI52 was the cat’s meow.
Sine, cosine and tangent.
My son had to have a graphing calculator in high school.
I think there’s an app for that now.
I remember the FAA computer in the mid-80’s was about the size of a rolling suitcase. Sort of a dot matrix printer for flight strips.
My coop job in college used an AT286, then a 386, and we sent our documents to be printed in ASCII, or something. We saved them on big floppies.
We had “portable” Compaqs that had 2 halves that came apart. About 35 lbs.
If I remember, my first Windows was on something like 22 diskettes.
Later, wanting to know more, I picked up a Tandy 1000 at a yard sale, and then bought a Gateway in 1996 for over $3000. 3G hard drive and a 17” monitor that had to be 45 lbs.
Well, you certainly were uptown with the TI-52, I wanted one but it was out of reach for me at the time. I remember pooling our money when the SR-10 came out and I had to wait for the Christmas sale when the price was reduced to a whopping $110.00 which at the time still put it out of reach for many. We were probably the first to think about a group-buy in reverse. It was still thought to be high
.I still liked using my slide rule on occasion along with the trusty no. 2 pencils.
We still have an Apple with that tiny10" screen....carrying case and all. it weighed a ton, talk about portability!
Best, Ben
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01-10-21, 12:09 PM
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01-10-21, 12:34 PM
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01-10-21, 10:36 PM
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We had punch cards in high school that we programmed to approximate pi by throwing “darts” at a 1x1 square. The darts were x, y coordinates from the random number generator.
I watched Persian Gulf war games at the Naval War College on big screens in 1978. The results were about half human and half computer generated.
In college the first time, I watched guys develop hull shapes for surface ships, subs, and torpedoes on screens with line art graphics, and then a machine would carve a block of wood for use in a 100’ and 300’ tank.
Later we used teletype printing computers to run war games on the East Coast. (I “ran” air strikes out of New Hanover Regional Jetport in Wilmington NC), and the targeting info would be specific to a spotter having “eyes on target,” which included the names and unit designations of Soviet units, or just grid coordinates, which meant less intel. The printer would spit back BDA’s and likely casually assessments.
Tom Landry was widely criticized for running game scenarios through a computer as coach of the Cowboys. Imagine that.
I watched Persian Gulf war games at the Naval War College on big screens in 1978. The results were about half human and half computer generated.
In college the first time, I watched guys develop hull shapes for surface ships, subs, and torpedoes on screens with line art graphics, and then a machine would carve a block of wood for use in a 100’ and 300’ tank.
Later we used teletype printing computers to run war games on the East Coast. (I “ran” air strikes out of New Hanover Regional Jetport in Wilmington NC), and the targeting info would be specific to a spotter having “eyes on target,” which included the names and unit designations of Soviet units, or just grid coordinates, which meant less intel. The printer would spit back BDA’s and likely casually assessments.
Tom Landry was widely criticized for running game scenarios through a computer as coach of the Cowboys. Imagine that.
