26 May
2024
26 May
'24
9:14 p.m.
if it only manipulates numeric data, it is a calculator. It must be able to search,
rearrange look up, compare, and display characters. I would have thought that to be
obvious. I don'care if it has 99 terabites of high speed memory and does fourier
transforms in minus 0 seconds, if it cannot give a text description of the answer, it is a
calculator.
Also something about arbritray branches to any location (ok, any executable location if
something has separate code and data memory).
<pre>--Carey</pre>
On 05/26/2024 3:01 PM CDT Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 5/26/24 11:11, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2024-05-26 10:56 a.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
I did use a CP/M machine once, but the 8"
drive was a bit sticky.
You rap the drive to get it unstuck, but if you rap it too hard
the machine would reset.
Fred, just forget it. We belong to a bygone era and there's no sense in
trying to explain things to the younger folk.
However, perhaps someone can tell me why an HP-41 or TI SR-52 isn't a
"personal computer"...
--Chuck