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Post by Joe Durnavich on Feb 28, 2007 19:09:37 GMT -4
I hope no one here has been around long enough to have used one of these.Wow! (I haven't said that about Vista yet.)
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Post by LunarOrbit on Feb 28, 2007 19:11:19 GMT -4
"Wow!" was my reaction when I first heard about that ancient navigational computer... it is truly impressive.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Feb 28, 2007 19:28:39 GMT -4
I hope no one here has been around long enough to have used one of these. I read about that thing once. Fascinating accomplishment for the ancient world.
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Post by Grand Lunar on Feb 28, 2007 19:38:05 GMT -4
I learned a little BASIC in second grade . . . . BASIC was all I knew until twelfth grade. I think it was 12th grade... Anyway, then I learned C++. Never got the hang of it. I specifically knew TI-BASIC, thanks to the only computer I had for years; a TI-99 4/A. The thing wasn't much for memory; just 16k total. That makes it, what, a mere four times more than the DSKY? Simple games, but lots of fun. Somehow, I lost all the storage devices, so if power was lost or if I hit the wrong key(s), then whatever program I wrote would go bye-bye. Oh, and for storage, it used either a 5 inch disk drive or a tape recorder. Ah, the advances of technology we've made....
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 28, 2007 20:24:20 GMT -4
I started on BASIC nearly 20 years ago, moved to Pascal, Learned Modula-2 and Ada. Screamed in horror ran away to learn C and C++, then did some fooling about in LISP, which is when I started going bald. Finally I returned to the beginning of the loop going to Visual Basic 6.0 and now I'm pretty much a Visual Basic .NET programmer who's learning C#.NET as well. Somewhere in there I picked up a lot of HTML, DHTML, XML/XMS, JavaScript, VBScript and ASP too.
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Post by hplasm on Feb 28, 2007 20:46:20 GMT -4
I hope no one here has been around long enough to have used one of these. Aha! I had one of those once. Dropped the damn thing in the sea on holiday... Never thought to insure it, can't be worth much, I said... Went home and bought a desktop machine- Babbage or something...
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 28, 2007 20:49:36 GMT -4
Went home and bought a desktop machine- Babbage or something...
Boy you must have a big desk.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Mar 1, 2007 0:10:33 GMT -4
I did a little bit of BASIC on the Commodore 64... I was only about 8 years old so the programs didn't do much. Learned "Turing", Pascal, and a bit of C++ in high school, and some Visual Basic later on. But most of my programming experience is web based (HTML, javascript, and PHP mostly).
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Post by wingerii on Mar 1, 2007 0:49:21 GMT -4
I just submitted my C++ implementation of AVL trees, twenty minutes before the deadline!
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Post by gillianren on Mar 1, 2007 0:59:22 GMT -4
I learned to type on an ancient and clunky manual typewriter, and by the time I got to high school, they hardly bothered teaching typing at all anymore, not on typewriters.
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Mar 1, 2007 11:43:12 GMT -4
My wife and I went to get new cell phones last weekend , one for me, one for her, and one for the nanny, to replace the single brick-shaped Nokia we've been using for years. As I was walking out of the store with three camera phones, 2 with built in mp3-player capability (and these are the ones we could get for free!) it occured to me that I was carrying more technology in one hand than the entire Apollo program used.
I can't wait to see the new moon program!
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Post by Grand Lunar on Mar 1, 2007 12:47:01 GMT -4
Same here!
I wonder how the new ship will handle storm conditions such as that which delayed the Atlantis's launch? Will that BPC do anything about it?
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Post by JayUtah on Mar 1, 2007 13:17:31 GMT -4
ET insulation damage is a problem only because the orbiter is side-strapped. Every launch vehicle sheds insulation, ice, paint, and other kinds of debris. But since conventional launch vehicles are top-stacked, the payload is safe. When we recycle the ET design for the new program, the top-stacking arrangement will relax the weather constraint. The ET can shed all it wants and we won't care.
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Post by Data Cable on Mar 1, 2007 17:49:47 GMT -4
I profusely apologize in advance for what I'm about to say, but I couldn't help it... it just popped in there... ET foam hone
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Post by Apollo Gnomon on Mar 1, 2007 19:21:17 GMT -4
Bad debunker! Bad!
Go sit in the Education Forum until the end of class.
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