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The Breakroom => The Water Cooler => Topic started by: kwackers on April 20, 2012, 10:46:08 AM

Title: Got some floppies?
Post by: kwackers on April 20, 2012, 10:46:08 AM

Just needs the old "Abort, Retry, Fail?" and it'd be the nineties all over again...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q
 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xk_XaJ7gE4Q)

Title: Re: Got some floppies?
Post by: AussieJimG on April 29, 2012, 03:49:41 AM

Back in the days when minicomputers had switch registers, one of my mates programmed a PDP 11/20 (remember them) with loops so that with a radio sitting on top of the machine, he could play tunes on the switch register like an organ. Very impressive (until the boss caught him)

It all seems a million years ago now. Back when 16K of core memory was considered excessive.

But then, nostalgia was better in those days too :wave:

Jim