I’m surprised you didn’t quiz ChatGPT until it refused to answer and/or crashed.
I understand “it” can use very “colorful” language when provoked and poked. ;) Don Resor Sent from someone's iPhone > On May 29, 2024, at 11:06 PM, John Herron via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Only because I thought it would be funny to hear ChatGPT's wrong answer. > Here is ChatGPT's answer on the first personal computer. > > ME> What was the first personal computer? > ChatGPT> The first personal computer is a bit of a debated topic, but one > of the earliest and most influential examples is the Altair 8800, released > in 1975. It was developed by a company called MITS (Micro Instrumentation > and Telemetry Systems). The Altair 8800 was a build-it-yourself kit based > on the Intel 8080 microprocessor, and it featured toggle switches and LED > lights for input and output. This computer is often credited with sparking > the microcomputer revolution and inspiring a generation of computer > enthusiasts, including a young Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who famously > developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair. > > (Pouring gas on the fire, but thought it was funny.) > >> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 1:23 PM Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk < >> cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> Could this be the answer to the question we have been studying? >> >> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cleaning-crew-discovers-one-worlds-oldest-surviving-desktop-computers-180984399/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0XLQ55t9rqdmPmIZ2G9wnk5PQyQBAPgIldqyWY1aSBSumxmnIxxj1pKB8_aem_AYsP2xUVa1G4_zU9npLd2aOC1SSXE13QtKIpVwLXoSfmIprnTqf2pwotD3ZeGgUwtxN5ggJxhF9_IcL815ePnMlO >> >> cheers, >> Nigel >> >> >>> On 2024-05-28 13:45, Nigel Johnson Ham wrote: >>> >>> In line with my memories completely, Tony, although I was just a wee >>> sapling back then. >>> >>> It is also where the terms 'A', 'B' and 'C' supplies come from, since >>> there were three batteries per radio, grid bias, HT, and heaters. The >>> grid bias battery lasted a long time since there was very little >>> current drawn. >>> >>> And I have fond memories of learning to play the piano by gaslight, >>> since the elderly spinster piano teacher and her mother refused to let >>> the house be connected to the electric mains as they were afraid of it! >>> >>> Then of course there was the Ronan Point gas explosion which blew out >>> a whole floor of a high-rise building in London that might have >>> changed people's minds! >>> >>> 73 de Nigel ve3id >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2024-05-28 13:17, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 6:06 PM ben<bfranc...@jetnet.ab.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just what is a gas radio? >>>> A radio that runs off gas rather than plugging into the electricity >> mains. >>>> >>>> Let me explain. The main use for either gas or electriciy in UK homes >>>> until the mid 1920s was heating (including cooking) and light. Both >>>> energy sources could easily be used for that. But then a large number >>>> of electric appliances using motors started to appear, along with >>>> other things, like radios that ran off the electricity mains (rather >>>> than a dry battery for the HT supply (B+) and a single-cell lead acid >>>> accumulator for the valve filaments). >>>> >>>> The gas supply companies were worried they would lose business as a >>>> result and designed gas powered version of all the mains electrical >>>> devices. One classis was the table fan which had a small Stirling-type >>>> hot air engine to turn the blades. There was of course a little gas >>>> burner to run the engine. The only problem was the heat of the flame >>>> rather negated the cooling effect of the fan. >>>> >>>> Anyway, the gas radio. This was a wooden floor-standing console >>>> cabinet looking like most other radios of the time. The bit I >>>> repaired (for a museum, where I understood it would be run off a >>>> normal electrical power supply for obvious reasons) was the radio >>>> which was a normal-for-the time 3 or 4 valve (tube) set. There was a >>>> speaker in the cabinet too. At the bottom was the power supply. This >>>> consisted of a gas burner with a thermopile (array of thermocouple >>>> junctions) on top to provide the valve filament and HT voltages. >>>> >>>> There was no flue. The combustion products were simply vented into the >>>> room, And yes the gas burner was inside the wooden console cabinet, so >>>> it was something of a fire risk to be polite about it. >>>> >>>> AFAIK they were never sold to the public, thankfully. >>>> >>>> -tony >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU >>> Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! >>> Skype: TILBURY2591 >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU >> Amateur Radio, the origin of the open-source concept! >> Skype: TILBURY2591 >> >> >
