Am i the only not out fri...night

Just you and the ghost in the machine

/me is home for another friday night

Nice to know I'm not aloan. HOOOOOOwdy

Sir elvee I looked at your skins tonight they look first rate!!

Its 9:45 in california

Thanks

Maryland 12:45 AM

I see your Blind's and WinAmp's...good starts

Thanks I'm new at skinning and computers.

It's a whole new world for me.

I wrote some programs in high school With fortran but I can't remember much from those days.

Well i have been around for years, and i don't have a lick of skinning talent, but some people say i can put WinStyle Suites together well enough

Heck i could barely program with BASIC in High School

Computers shore have come a long way ,I can't beleave the hard disk memory space its mind baugoling.

Are we ready for the tarabite. How big a # is that?

I remember my Apple II C with 64k of Ram

My father tells me of a computer that filled a large airconditioned room that had less power than a 1978 calculater.

Yes that was true

Only one first generation computer still exists in the world....in the Museum in Melbourne [Oz]...it's called CSIRAC and was lauded for being 100 times faster than a mechanical computer.
One kid looking at it asked 'where's the monitor?'.
It didn't have one...input and output was by teletype...

What was the one with the holes in the cards?

Think of all the chads... think of how different the world might be without the hanging chads.....

/me .

And the kid probably also asked -> Can you play games on it? .
Man, 5:51am in PA and I'm still up. This sucks. Plus I have nothing to do. Maybe I'll clean my room, umm, maybe

Plus can you imagine all of the trees they would waste if all the companies had them instead of these servers? We waste alot of paper now, with th cards, I can't imagine.

CSIRAC, never heard of it. UNIVAC 1005 I've heard of.

WOM...CSIRAC was built 54 years ago [1949] and was the 5th electronic storage computer ever developed...originally called the 'CSIR Mk1'.
It was turned off in 1964, but unlike any of the others, it was not broken up for scrap but is still complete and 'could' be turned on again..

OK, so an 8086 XT with a serious head-cold could run rings around it, but its historical significance to all computer nerds makes it a 'must' to see if you ever get the chance...

Thats probably why I hadn't heard of it. It went out of service the year before I graduated high school. That old card reader(UNIVAC 1005) was the first hugh computer I ever programed for. It was still used in the 70's by the government.