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#1 here we're

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I am jez truckin' to get into this UI. Everybody wants to create new UI software. It is like eating popcorn... we can't stop.
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Go on! You're dying to tell us what UI software is aren't you!?
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I can hardly contain myself!

Do tell us!
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User Interface - I am too old to think they need any more, but, there are billions of dollars at stake, sigh.

When I first wrote code for a living, the user interface was toggle switches on the front panel. I toggled in the boot strap loader for the KSR-33 twelve bits at a time. No SPAM ;)

Now I listen to home brew audio and dream whatever I dream.
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Death and Texas. Is there a connection? Does one inevitably lead to the other?
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death&texas wrote:When I first wrote code for a living, the user interface was toggle switches on the front panel. I toggled in the boot strap loader for the KSR-33 twelve bits at a time. No SPAM ;)
Eh? A KSR-33 (Teletype Model 33) didn't have a bootloader - it was a "Keyboard Send/Receive" unit - a teletypewriter with no punched tape reader or writer - just a keyboard & printer.
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Yes. I am not yet dead and now I live in TX. I had CFS/ME/whatever for about sixteen years and then the year before last I got cancer and the radiation and chemotherapy "cured" the cancer and in the subsequent months of "recovery" my CFS wandered off, exactly like it wandered in.

In my decrepitude, I became immune to taxes, do to the mysteries of tax law, but, I know death is just part of life.

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Oh, yes, ASR-33, mine had the magic punch tape reader/punch... 110.5 bits per second!

:)
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Bring back the "Here Is" key. Thats what I say.

Hi Al, have you escaped from the Joe List?
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Hi Al, took me a few seconds there to figure out who you are.
Yes, I'm kinda slow.
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Lord have Marcy on us ?
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welcome.....

spent many happy years bashing the bejaysus out of teletype 33 ASR..standard user interface for all ICL 1900 series...they had a little loudspeaker in some and the tune of some programs running was recognisable.....irresponsible types used to push biros through the cones..after which they just squarked..

ah, happy days, if not years.
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My first "real engineer" job, I had two DEC PDP-8E minicomputers. One with 4Kx12bits of real three wire core memory, and one with 16K of the "new" two wire core memory. The DEC manuals were superb. I learned everything I ever learned reading their docs and trying to grok the code in the two systems I worked on. Neither system had any UI when I started, except the Teletype.

Sort of the style of my career.

Couple years later, my QC computers sent alerts to the console operators of the machines we were monitoring...

Both those DEC systems ran at 800KHz... Almost a million!

Blather blather blather...

I wore huge Mickey Mouse earphone protectors to reduce my ear pain from the noise of the huge machines. High Tech in the early 70's.
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I'm an ex-DECcie too...

Started on PDP-8Es as well - still have a J11 (PDP-on-a-chip) on my technical-shelf-of-infamy!
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Islandpink, The Quality of Marcy is not strained, it droppeth like the gentle rain from Heaven...

what you get on your shoes is not my problem ;)
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