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lazygamer:
Magnetic stuff is amazing! If I was an inventor my computer would have to utilize bumps or holes of some sort. It would be totally mechanical. Such concepts of the modern computer with silicon, microsizes, electricity carrying data and magenetic storage baffle the mind!
creedon:
quote:Originally posted by lazygamer:
Magnetic stuff is amazing! If I was an inventor my computer would have to utilize bumps or holes of some sort. It would be totally mechanical. Such concepts of the modern computer with silicon, microsizes, electricity carrying data and magenetic storage baffle the mind!
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You're like me; if I can watch it work, I understand it. I'll never be a Linux guru; I can't SEE it work, but I can rebuild any kind of mechanical device. Let's see if we can come up with an analog Linux distro, then maybe I'll get the intricacies.
Sleeping Dog:
You know......I have tried and tried.....but I still can't find a distro of Linux that will load and run on this abacus.
Sleeping Dog
creedon:
quote:Originally posted by Sleeping Dog:
You know......I have tried and tried.....but I still can't find a distro of Linux that will load and run on this abacus.
Sleeping Dog
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Nah; I was thinkin' of one of those battleship fire control computers. My reasoning: They've de-commisioned all the Iowa- class boats (SOB!), so I could buy one for a song through government surplus.
Then, when I got AnalogLinux up and running, I could drop 16- inch rounds on any boxes running a MicroSoft OS within a 30 mile radius.
Good thinking, Huh?
Calum:
one thing i always wonder about, what were they using as computers for the space programs? they had people in space in the fifties and sixties, and people on the moon in the sixties and seventies, and if unix was just coming about in 1969, and ITS was what they had, what the hell were they running for the spacwe program? you know they have banks of computers and so on, what software did they use? how did they store data? et c et c...
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