14 Apr
2004
14 Apr
'04
5 p.m.
Tonight, on Green Acres (on the TV Land channel), they're showing a
1950/1960s minicomputer or mainframe with several tape drives, etc.
Does anyone know what type of computer it is? The show will probably
be repeated sometime tomorrow (probably sometime between 4:30 and 6:30
PM EST, I think). Anyone interested in taking a look to see what it
is, or know what it is from tonight's show?
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15 Apr
15 Apr
7:33 a.m.
Tonight, on Green Acres (on the TV Land channel),
they're showing a
1950/1960s minicomputer or mainframe with several tape drives, etc.
Does anyone know what type of computer it is? The show will probably
be repeated sometime tomorrow (probably sometime between 4:30 and 6:30
PM EST, I think). Anyone interested in taking a look to see what it
is, or know what it is from tonight's show?
Based on what I saw last night it looked like three tape drives, a
card sorter and either a typewriter or a terminal of some sort. I'm
guessing the gear was from the 50's. There was no sign of an actual
CPU. No idea who the manufacturer was, those tape drives were rather
interesting looking.
Zane
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8:13 a.m.
Zane H. Healy wrote:
Based on what I saw last night it looked like three
tape drives, a card
sorter and either a typewriter or a terminal of some sort. I'm guessing
the gear was from the 50's. There was no sign of an actual CPU. No
idea who the manufacturer was, those tape drives were rather interesting
looking.
Still you can still find tape drives being used with recient TV too.
While visting somebody, they were channel clicking and Tape Drive
flashed by. It think it was part of some sort of police computer.
Ben.
8:25 a.m.
>>>> "ben" == ben franchuk
<bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
ben> Zane H. Healy wrote:
> Based on what I saw last night it looked like
three tape drives, a
> card sorter and either a typewriter or a terminal of some sort.
> I'm guessing the gear was from the 50's. There was no sign of an
> actual CPU. No idea who the manufacturer was, those tape drives
> were rather interesting looking.
ben> Still you can still find tape drives being used with recient TV
ben> too. While visting somebody, they were channel clicking and
ben> Tape Drive flashed by. It think it was part of some sort of
ben> police computer.
I still remember the opening shot on "3 days of the Condor" with a
PDP-8 busily spinning its DECtapes...
paul
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