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by tuberculosis
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11/17/04 1:59:04 PM
8/21/07 5:40:08 AM
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New Oh, well if we're going to count lab work
done while a student in the PRRC (Petroleum Recovery Research Center), then we had a fairly complicated lab apparatus that was controlled by an hp-71 basic machine. But I didn't program it - only used it.


"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."     --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."     --George W. Bush
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Post #184,358
by bepatient
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11/17/04 5:48:39 PM
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New I dabbled in programming the 64...
...but included it only because it was the first machine that was primarily accessed by me as lab assistant for the chem department. Had to use it to earn my grade.

I also used a series of different machines in college...but was taught programming with punchcards (fortran).

Then we used some AT machines to do economic modeling and project workflow design...but that was coursework.

I had earlier computer experience...but I can't recall machines. Interesting thing was that we could "chat" with other college labs as WV was networked in the 70s. I was doing instant messaging 15 years before I knew what instant messaging was.

The PS/2 Model 80 (with a 4 mb (maybe 2) Orchid memory card upgrade woohoo!) was my first machine at my first official post college job.

If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

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         IBM 5120 - (imric) - Nov. 17, 2004, 07:03:09 AM EST
         PDP-11 controller - (Arkadiy) - Nov. 17, 2004, 08:58:41 AM EST
         IBM 709. - (a6l6e6x) - Nov. 17, 2004, 09:33:45 AM EST
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         Let's see... - (Another Scott) - Nov. 17, 2004, 09:53:11 AM EST
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         Depending on how you count, Mac 7, or Pentium 1 - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 17, 2004, 10:38:48 AM EST
         First money made was with Apple II - (ChrisR) - Nov. 17, 2004, 10:40:20 AM EST
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         First did lab work on a COmmodore 64. - (bepatient) - (2) - Nov. 17, 2004, 11:47:57 AM EST
             Oh, well if we're going to count lab work - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 05:40:08 AM EDT
                 I dabbled in programming the 64... - (bepatient) - Nov. 17, 2004, 05:48:39 PM EST
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         Interdata 7-32 - (jb4) - (4) - Nov. 17, 2004, 01:56:45 PM EST
             I didn't use one at University, so I can't ... - (imric) - (3) - Nov. 17, 2004, 02:16:37 PM EST
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                     Wasn't Wang's stuff similar? -NT - (Another Scott) - (2) - Nov. 17, 2004, 07:00:37 PM EST
                         Dunno, but.. - (Ashton) - Nov. 18, 2004, 03:22:13 AM EST
                         Wang also had a word processor - (jb4) - Nov. 18, 2004, 06:31:27 PM EST
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