Not as old as RTTY, but it worked for a whopping 400 baud!............
Posted on 08/17/2016 10:29:43 AM PDT by zeugma
Those guys were like ‘gods’ to the ‘rest of us’....................
I even had a subscription to PC Computing!...............
Beware of the overpunch.
Every once in a while I still run into that for inbound data feeds. Try to explain that to some college rookie.
In order to get Aces over the Pacific (a DOS game) to run on my windows 3.1 386, I had to boot as DOS and then become a bit of a memory expert. I shifted all sorts of stuff to something called himem and other stuff. It needed around 580k of memory to run and the machine only had 640k or something like that.
Sure was a fun game, once I got it going.
Further, If you can’t remember ring core magnetic memory then you ain’t old school. :0)
I still write in QBASIC, for old test programs here at work that run on old computers!...............
Wow, yer old
Octal lives!
Try to find someone adept at decoding RTTY.
That I do!
Read wire, Write wire and circular magnetism!..............
To be honest, I kind of envied the guys who got to play with their own micro-computers. I didn’t really get into that until about 1990-91 or so. That said, I liked the VAX. I was pretty much on my own, there, and it was a good solid system. Mainframe sucked. Hated handing tapes to the High Priests in White Robes. At least I never had to hand them card decks ...
Hard drive? You must be a young pup.
I used SSDD 5.25 inch floppies. Just line up the index hole with the hole in the cover, and you could safely store them by thumb tacking them to your cork board.
And my father was backing up to his audio cassette drive.
Not as old as RTTY, but it worked for a whopping 400 baud!............
It is damned difficult to find the means to read and rewrite what’s on a ring core memory in this millennium.... believe me, I’ve tried. Ended up assuring the enire system worked (unpowered at that) before recording the output. The technology just isn’t there any more.
Onoz. I used one of those.
My AF days in Telecom were at much lower speeds. 300 baud was called DSTE in my days. New fangled superspeeds called Digital Subscriber Terminal Equipment. My experience then was at 60 and 100 WPM.....baud rates were different when they were encrypted. (Removed the stop space).
LOL! That's what they were like everywhere it seems...........never saw them do anything. They just stayed inside their 'room' all day and came out (you couldn't go in!) for coffee and lunch!..................
Yep. PC Write in MS-DOS was uptown. After that, the military went to Enable, a sucky DOS based suite.
Before that, Commodore 64 with no hard drive, just a floppy. Hundreds of lines of code that had to be typed in letter perfect from Commodore 64 magazine in order to play Choplifter.
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