Re: Your earliest encounters?

Article View: alt.folklore.computers

Article #621633

Back to alt.folklore.computers Previous Next

#621633

From: Daiyu Hurst
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:44

15 lines
2064 bytes

On Tuesday, March 20, 2018 at 5:54:53 PM UTC-4, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
> I think recently that we discussed the DigiComp
> plastic binary adder (with stick-on paper 1 and 0!),
> but preceding that, I was involved with wiring up
> NOR gates with OC200 or OC201 transistors for the
> school's first "computer".
> 
> This was about 1966 when I was 15.

Hands-on, it was a Digi-Comp I, in 1971, but I think before that,
I bought a biorhythm printout at the mall generated by an IBM 1130. 
And I was with my parents one day at some affair in the late 60s, 
and saw what I think was an IBM 1620. I'm not sure, but my memory 
leads me to think the knob I saw on this machine looked like the 
MAR Display Selector on the 1620.

Technical Details

Message-ID: <464620b1-19d2-46a3-a5a7-2e298a49bf25@googlegroups.com>

Path:

mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!a19ni310qtj.1!nntp.google.com!j23no439688qtl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail

References: <p8rvvc$m18$1@dont-email.me>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Received: by 10.55.207.135 with SMTP id v7mr9986153qkl.5.1521690298684;        Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com
Received: by 10.200.40.247 with SMTP id j52ls3147861qtj.9.gmail; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.237.48.241 with SMTP id 104mr14828327qtf.6.1521690298013;        Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
X-Received: by 10.31.171.82 with SMTP id u79mr2893561vke.3.1521690297745; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!a19ni310qtj.1!nntp.google.com!j23no439688qtl.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:44:57 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <p8rvvc$m18$1@dont-email.me>
Complaints-To: groups...@google.com
Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=104.53.100.242; posting-account=NbcJEAoAAAC1QGyfUcs9H6NG6KTeO8L7
NNTP-Posting-Host: 104.53.100.242
References: <p8rvvc$m18$1@dont-email.me>
User-Agent: G2/1.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
Message-ID: <464620b1-19d2-46a3-a5a7-2e298a49bf25@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: Your earliest encounters?
From: Daiyu Hurst <daiyu...@gmail.com>
Injection-Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 03:44:58 +0000
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message