Diginfraconacc Discussion Threads

[random] 10/8/2002 23:36

1K ram chips .....

[gausie] 10/8/2002 22:51

acoustic couplers for the teletype machine with nice padded bits for the handpiece.

oh, and riffle shuffling other peoples punch cards.

[paulf] 10/8/2002 22:45

I can recall playing Star Trek on a Teletype but who can remember CPM user group, 77/68, 8080, 6800 and a 4k memory card 8 inches square.

[random] 10/8/2002 20:28

1K ram chips .....

[kayak] 09/8/2002 08:50

lol, I love these nostalgia threads. Could someone put a 70's medley as background music please.

[jl202] 09/8/2002 08:43

Well I remember seeing my first mouse which was a roller ball in an office full of luggables that seemed cool in the old Albert Docks before they were demolished. Not that old I know, but felt like I wanted to join in :)) Probably around 1985 when Dell meant a fast PC and Lotus 1-2-3 on a monochrome was the bomb, 5 1/4 floppies, ahh those were the days,,

[kayak] 09/8/2002 00:20

Yep, that was pretty much it :-)

[tradesman] 08/8/2002 16:11

Im only 36 and my first ever computer game involved landing a spacecraft by typing in speed and engine duration bursts. the machine would then print out your position change.

then we moved up to a flash research machines - I meanwhile built a flash tangerine(name of machine) with a 6502 processor.

My next desire was to save up for the tape and a/o convertor so I could record my programmes instead of losing them on power down.

[skinny] 08/8/2002 14:02

Until you've put the chads back into a punch card and gone over them with a pencil rather than punch a new card, you haven't lived! Unless of course, you have spent the afternoon splicing paper tape. Happy days!

[jl202] 08/8/2002 11:18

Just you and the VAX by the canalside, bumble bees buzzing and flowers smelling good then WHAMMO Bill Gates licenses MS DOS to IBM and .. you know the rest,,

[kayak] 08/8/2002 09:05

VAX/VMS, aaah, brings back memories, sunny Rotterdam in 1982... sigh

[jl202] 08/8/2002 08:58

You guys really are old ;) I discovered we had a VAX VMS machine in the depths of the computer room and laughed - think the IT guy was a bit offended, he didn't like having his "userbase" skills belittled oops,,

[kayak] 07/8/2002 22:17

Gaw, you must be even older than me!

[trinders] 07/8/2002 22:04

Line printer - in my young day it was an IBM golfball - and paper tape - but still Fortran... Trinders (feeling rather old...)

[kayak] 07/8/2002 21:48

Turbo Pascal eh?

I remember when I wrote my first FORTRAN program to print out "HELLO" on the line printer, punched it onto cards and put them through the reader.

:-)

[jl202] 07/8/2002 08:43

0007, I was joking hence the wink :) I appreciate my script may not be as slick or bells and whistles as a nice piece of software, but it works! Does exactly what it says on the tin,,

[pommy] 07/8/2002 00:42

Never done anything like this before so thought id give it a go. saved as file.vbs and double clicked on it
get an error msg

Script:
Line: 25
Char: 83
Error: Unterminated string constant
Code: 800A0409
Source: Microsoft VBScript complilation error.

[0007] 06/8/2002 22:15

jl202

thanks for your honest opinion! However, for those not versed in Vb script etc your solution might be too difficult. Horses for courses???

Cheers

[jl202] 06/8/2002 22:07

Everybody, I tried that and it was sh*t, I recommend you try mine ;)

[0007] 06/8/2002 22:03

Guys,

I seem to remember asking on this subject a while ago and was impressed by the amount of useful info freely offered. However, if you're pressed for time and need something ready made & free (ie Freeware) try "Smart Rename" - downloadable from:
Its an excellent utility that does all I need to rearrange filenames - no frills - its simplicity is its biggest virtue.

Also there is an excellent photo-album (freeware) manager by "fototime" - same source. I copy all my digtal pix into a fototime folder on a separate drive thus backing up automatically (ok so long as PC doesnt get nicked/bombed/catch fire). Foto time is an excellent mamanger if like me you have lots of technical photos you need to categorise & find quickly / simply etc - works similar to Win Explorer except better. Very easy to addcaptions etc and found to be one of the best viewrs for loading time and ability to customise.

Cheers,
0007

[jl202] 06/8/2002 14:25

Sorry pommy there was an error with the underscore when I copied it to this thread, the line over-ran. Have edited it now and it works - recopy it and try again. Make sure you have some test files in the destination directory first - duh!

[jl202] 06/8/2002 11:30

Oh the places we'll go :))

[jl202] 06/8/2002 11:29

And yes, use it at your own risk, I waive all responsibility if you accidentally on purpose rename all your boss's windows\system files starting 167,,