relative age

From: Charles E. Fox <foxvideo_at_wincom.net>
Date: Wed Oct 22 14:50:43 1997

At 10:52 PM 10/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
><Wow! A high schooler who's into old computers? Unless there is a
><pre-pubescent teenager on this list, I think Daniel has the record as the
><youngest collector of old computers.
>
>
>Frightening. ;-)
>
>here are some numbers
>
>If you are in highschool now:
>
>-0 PCs are known as current
>
>if highschool was x years ago:
>
>1990 PCs and macs
>
>1985 Apples, macs, Rainbows, PRO350s maybe some PCs
>
>1980 s100, apple][, swtp, LSI11, micronova Microprocessor chips
>
>1977 PDP-11, vax, nova Some LSI and bit slice
>
>1971 PDP-8, PDP-10 TTL mostly, some utilogic and transistors
> FYI the main computers in the shuttle are this era technology.
>
>1965 PDP-5 Transistors.
>
>1960 First generation transistors, vacuum tubes
>
>1952 first commercial machines, tubes
>
>1947 prototypes, tubes and relays
>
>If you were like me and did electronics as a kid following on to a career
>then everything made from '64-65ish on was current at one time or another
>to me. Then again I went to the NY worlds fair 1964/5!
>
>Allison
>
>
        You folks are all young sprouts... when I was in H.S. (1938) our AV
equipment was a wind up phonograph (disks, not cylinders,) and a lantern
slide projector. Once someone from Bell Telephone brought in a movie
projector and showed films! Calculations? they were done with a pencil on
"foolscap". And no, I didn't have Socrates for a teacher.

                                                        Cheers
                                                        Charlie Fox
Received on Wed Oct 22 1997 - 14:50:43 BST