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Anybody watching HALT & CATCH FIRE?

MBKMBK Member Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭
edited July 2015 in General Discussion
AMC program about 1980's computer company.
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  • gesshotsgesshots Member Posts: 15,678 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I watched all of the first season. Missed a couple episodes this season. It does a pretty good job depicting that era, despite the soap opera format. For folks not familiar with that time, it might be boring, but I'm certainly old enough that it doesn't apply to me !

    Yes I do remember 5.25" floppy discs and HDD's measured in KBs !!!

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    It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull the trigger. I won't. ~ J.B. Books
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Watching "Forged in Fire"..
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  • KAMsalesKAMsales Member Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by gesshots

    Yes I do remember 5.25" floppy discs and HDD's measured in KBs !!!



    I was getting a new thumb drive at the store the other day and was talking to the cashier about how cheap memory has gotten. Said I remember when a 1MB expansion pack was the size of a shoe box and cost a small fortune, now I got cheap 2GB SD cards getting lost because I can't hardly see them. Had one of these as a kid before we "upgraded" to the all powerful Apple IIe

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  • perry shooterperry shooter Member Posts: 17,105 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    wish I had seen that I worked as a service rep for IBM from everything from key punch machine to tube type Computers starting in 1967-1999 dec 31 wow what a ride with tech.what is this new thing call a floppy disk How about a sonic delay line in a heated oven to store info to refresh a DISPLAY unit model 2260. or punching a tros tape to make an engineering change
    I challenge any old IBM er to see who was trained on the most different model machines I still have my records [^]
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  • US Military GuyUS Military Guy Member Posts: 3,644 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by perry shooter

    snip . . .

    I still have my records [^]


    Are they computerized?
    [:D]
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  • andrewsw16andrewsw16 Member Posts: 10,728 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember my college had a state of the art IBM computer for all of us students to share. You had to punch your programs into cards that were then stacked in a hopper on the computer where they were read and the program was executed. You got used to seeing the computer science students walking to class with these big cardboard boxes full of cards. [:D]
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