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"Fed Up" Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood
The Smoking Gun ^
| APRIL 21, 2015
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Posted on 04/21/2015 3:34:59 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: FredZarguna
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:07:44 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
No, thank you. I'm sitting here doing maintenance/bugfix coding for an Android App as I occasionally take a break for
FR, and am ceaselessly amazed at how unbelievably my career has changed over these years. It's always good to connect with someone who "goes back."
I'm still convinced that the CRT is the biggest advancement in programmer productivity in history, even though there are obviously many other developments that in toto add up to be more important. The languages, methodology and so forth and the advances in hardware; but those have been a long evolution.
102
posted on
04/21/2015 8:17:38 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(It looks just like a Telefunken U-47 -- with leather.)
To: FredZarguna
were it not for the Cathode Ray Tube...Id never have bought that first computer..
103
posted on
04/21/2015 8:19:53 PM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
To: MeshugeMikey
Hinch just found a new way to break a Window. You are right, this thread is loaded with puns.
To: Slings and Arrows
The Elvis remote. It’s not just for TVs anymore.
105
posted on
04/21/2015 11:39:01 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: RichInOC
There but for the grace of G-d...
106
posted on
04/22/2015 12:40:00 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("What Hath G-d Wrought?" - https://youtu.be/w4rh0pa3Kbc | Facebook ID: Hopalong Q Ginsberg)
To: wally_bert
Based on just looking at pictures, no doubt a source of grief and misery. Quite the contrary. It was a very well-behaved machine most of the time. It even had micrometer screws to position the paper relative to the print chain. That allowed perfect registration with pre-printed forms. Machines of yesteryear were very heavy duty and well made. It is the flimsy plastic stuff that gives you grief.
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posted on
04/22/2015 4:18:39 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: GingisK
Thank you for the education. I never ran into a unit like that.
108
posted on
04/22/2015 4:59:32 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Drop the computer from a high roof ping!
To: FredZarguna
college programming class flashback pic!
My hour with the punch card machine was 3:00am -4:00am -
there was a lottery for time slots so everyone had a turn
to “write” their lines of code on those f#%king punch cards.
One mistake and you had to throw the card away and start over. FUN TIMES, FUN TIMES..
To: Slings and Arrows
It is a 7 or 8 year old PC. http://www.pcworld.com/product/29019/dell-xps-410.html
I have an even old Dimension 9200 (same case, lower end video card and slower processor), which works just fine running Windows 7 Professional. Did this winner keep XP and get infected with malware?
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posted on
04/23/2015 6:31:43 PM PDT
by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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