Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Apple, Android, and watches...Oh my!

[Stephen Sherman (stephensherman44]

To call what I programmed assembler was to give it too much credit. I was the assembler,  there were for the basic functions (+,-, /, * plus a few more which I can't remember ) most of what I did flip bits on and off with switches.

There were a couple of challenges first of those was the moving data around you had to move what I visualized the top half of the byte and then the bottom half and the branches ( to sub routines had to unique ( could not be created by the data)) as the command would start where ever it was in memory and test every byte until it got a match and if it was in the data you were screwed.

The 720C had a cassette program drive, 2 cassette data drives, a teletype (paper tape reader) and teletype ( paper tape writer ) and IBM Selectric typewriter for a printer.

The data entry program used the program drive and 1 of the data drives as a program drive ( as the program could not be rewound by program control as the data drives could. Punched paper tape was the output.

One the simplest problems ( to me ) was the company had 2 distinct systems so I got International Orange and fluorescent green Labels to identify each company.

Not so, got a call from the accountant he had got the tapes messed up.  Turned out he was/is color blind and both colors look like the same shade of gray, so simple Black for one and White for the other.

Stephen 

 

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net> wrote:

Yeah, but those 1982 bytes cost someone a big chunk of money!!!

On Mar 10, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com> wrote:

My 1st programming ( paid ) job was in 1973 on a Wang 720C. It was the best work I have ever done. 1982 bytes not K, meg, Gig, just BYTES. Full payroll, job cost accounting, was the most rewarding.

Stephen

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

I must admit, the only thing prettier than Apple products is the boxes that they come in!

I recently bought a notebook for Nancy; a Dell something-or-other. It came with Windows 8. What a cock-up abortion of an operating system!!! Gawd its terrible! It really typifies the plight of the PC:

Hobbiest toy > office machine > scientific calculator > gaming platform > entertainment device

I must admit, I'm a Linux guy. Was using it professionally as early as 1994! Granted, the latest implementations are candied-up quite a bit, but command line is still strong. I can't even find a command prompt on Nancy's W8 machine, not that I really want to...

Of course, this is the direction of progress. Games and entertainment built the personal computer market, just like porn built the internet; as much as we don't want to believe it. My next quest is to see if Windows 7 is compatible with Nancy's new Dell. If so, the question is whether to go back or wait for MS to replace this Vista-like release with something workable.

Wait! This is the Ferrari list, not the computer list. Sorry. Did I tell you that my cat died?

-rick

Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5

-------- Original message --------
From: Stephen Sherman <stephensherman44 [at] gmail.com>
Date: 03/10/2015 9:57 AM (GMT-06:00)
To: Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Apple, Android, and watches...Oh my!

I guess I will admit that I am getting an Apple Watch ( Black Stainless Steel 42mm Milanese band).

I don't have an IV Apple drip, I just like the watch.

I don't have any Mac's (build my own PC's) I prefer Woz's approach rather than Job's.

I will admit to being a past president of an Apple users group, back in the day when you could buy a blank card from Apple.

Stephen

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Rick Lindsay <richardolindsay [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Erik wrote...

> What?  No comments?  Guess the list is just waiting for a good cat and gun...

I'm just not a Apple person. Never have been. Just not my religion. That said, and with the manufacturer ignored, a wrist worn computer is a pretty cool idea. No more rectangle imprints on women's butts, no more '80s-pocket-calculater-like holsters hanging from guys' belts. Not bad. Of course, it won't help the millenials who have to carry a movie screen around with them 24/7...but nothing says they can't have both!

Sorry, Ferrari content: My cat died a couple of years ago, and I have an IR thermometer and a timing light, both of which are gun-shaped. 

-rick

 Samsung Galaxy S® 5, but I'm not an Android guy either.

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