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This is a link post How Computers Work


(I helped save b3ta! Zuowan, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 4:42, Reply)
This is a normal post hah
love it!
 (Ol' Ginger Bastard a role model for the children, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 5:45, Reply)
This is a normal post Aaah Happy Days
ICL 2900 series mainframe. Look like EDS 60 drives as well. Not sure what is happening on the Oper screen. Doesn't look like George IIs/DME/VME operating system.
 (GhostAtTheFeast Soup Sir?, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 6:43, Reply)
This is a normal post fucking Hell
I thought I was the only person who actually recognised the systems. I started my life on the ICL 1900 series.
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 7:05, Reply)
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Looks like a particularly bad game of Tetris.
 (Zachariah Pardon, pardon. J'AI UNE POUSSETTE, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 7:27, Reply)
This is a normal post Bollocks ICL...
Wasn't even founded until the late 60's

even I didn't start using the brown ones with the 8" floppies until the 80's.

You may have been using the Odhner Arithmometer in 1900 mind you. Which had similar functionality. (As I recall)
 (I helped save b3ta! zacherynuk @echo off, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 9:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Just what I was thinking.
(and I started on 1900s as well).
 (minimalist ..., Thu 22 Dec 2011, 15:16, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah, the FSDB!
"Fast Super Database"
 (Zachariah Pardon, pardon. J'AI UNE POUSSETTE, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 6:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Was that a real thing?
And if so, was it any better than their IDMS offering?
(Which, in my humble opinion, was a pile of hierarchical pointer-based shite.)
 (minimalist ..., Thu 22 Dec 2011, 15:19, Reply)
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I may have made it up.
 (Zachariah Pardon, pardon. J'AI UNE POUSSETTE, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 17:10, Reply)
This is a normal post I beg to differ
IDMSX was/still is better than the bastard IBM version. And VME easier to develop on than IBM z/os systems I work on now...
 (GhostAtTheFeast Soup Sir?, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 18:38, Reply)
This is a normal post I can't speak for the "X" version...
...(was that a 'relational' jobbie?) but the one I worked with was evil incarnate. God help you if you needed to increase the size of a database: Certainly sir, just run this set of utilities to dump the whole thing off (as 'flat' files) and then reload / rebuild it all again - only takes forever, with no guarantee of success. Poor old ICL support staff even wanted to buy integrity checking tools that I'd written!
 (minimalist ..., Thu 22 Dec 2011, 23:30, Reply)
This is a normal post Office Romances Displease Computers!
I might get this on a T-Shirt

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 (I helped save b3ta! ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 8:37, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmm.
Maybe I should paint my computer red?
 (I helped save b3ta! The Togaboy The world will end on, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 12:28, Reply)
This is a normal post I have that book
I'm old enough that I was bought it when it was new. It is my entire inspiration for my computing degree, career and spending years on b3ta*.

*may include several lies
 (I helped save b3ta! Smiley_Neil filling the interweb with crap, Thu 22 Dec 2011, 20:28, Reply)