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[Fizzgig]

I finally recycled my AS/400 last year. :( I didn't know QSECOFR's password, so I had never plugged it in. It's not like I could hack it. ;)

[dhcalva]

I think I still have my old IBM S/360 card around here someplace,,,,

I can do you one better. At work we still have our old S/360 upstairs! LOL :D:

[hobie16]

I can do you one better. At work we still have our old S/360 upstairs! LOL :D:

Your power bills must be gawd awful. I've still got my IBM mainframe cabinet key.

[dhcalva]

Oh, we don't use it any more. But it's there. :)

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

HA, I have a piece of the 8 level paper tape from a teletype used for input.

[hobie16]

HA, I've got a blanket that was used to send smoke signals

[felinefan]

I just love it when you guys try to one-up each other! :D:

I'm waiting for someone to say they have an ancient drum used for sending "local calls".

Anyone remember that one episode of Gilligan's Island where Gilligan is playing a drum, and it attracts the attention of a group of natives on another island?

[Mayonnaise]

I don't have access to any old hardware... but I do have access to a really old developer.

He used to work for Bell Labs on a computer that took up several rooms and had vacuum tubes involved. Then he worked on punch cards... then in COBOL.

He will tell you very loudly about how it's a travesty that so much is programmed in variations on C these days, because C is for engineers and commercial applications should be in COBOL.

He will also tell you that the internet is supposed to be for science and work only, and therefore should not be filled with games and message boards, and that you shouldn't be allowed to say anything on the internet that you can't say on network television. Oh, and he firmly believes that trolls and other poor internet spellers are foreigners.

8^P

[Syndrome]

I still have disks for my Magnovox Videowriter.

One of my first jobs was data entry on a Wang with those giant "platter" backups. We used to think it was so slick to be able to program it (in BASIC no less) to flash custom messages on the screen and whatnot. Damn, I'm old.

[CBeilby]

I don't have access to any old hardware... but I do have access to a really old developer.

He used to work for Bell Labs on a computer that took up several rooms and had vacuum tubes involved. Then he worked on punch cards... then in COBOL.

He will tell you very loudly about how it's a travesty that so much is programmed in variations on C these days, because C is for engineers and commercial applications should be in COBOL.

He will also tell you that the internet is supposed to be for science and work only, and therefore should not be filled with games and message boards, and that you shouldn't be allowed to say anything on the internet that you can't say on network television. Oh, and he firmly believes that trolls and other poor internet spellers are foreigners.

8^P

Does he yell at us "da*n kids" to get off his lawn? :D: