Re: Display-less computing

2015-12-14 Thread Charlie Carothers
On 12/14/2015 11:17 AM, Charlie Carothers wrote: On 12/12/2015 6:11 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2015, Mike wrote: The one question I do have for the older gentlemen on here is what in the world did the computers without a screen to look at do? Now I know about the tape

Re: Display-less computing was Re: TOP POSTING

2015-12-14 Thread Charlie Carothers
On 12/13/2015 2:44 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: I've heard from a couple of CEs that the loathing for the 557 was legend. Legend has it that someone once turned in a suggestion form at IBM saying that the Cardatype(sp?) plant should be bombed with 557s. :-) Charlie C. And while you were there w

What did computers without screens do?

2015-12-14 Thread Charlie Carothers
On 12/12/2015 6:11 PM, Eric Christopherson wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2015, Mike wrote: The one question I do have for the older gentlemen on here is what in the world did the computers without a screen to look at do? Now I know about the tape, cassette tape's and even the paper with the hole punc

Re: 1980s/1990s 68k C cross (and not so cross) compilers

2015-11-22 Thread Charlie Carothers
On 11/21/2015 4:54 AM, Philip Pemberton wrote: Hi there, I'm working on reverse engineering a radio navigation receiver (surprisingly not GPS, something else... Datatrak if anyone's heard of it) for the purpose of either repurposing the hardware or building up some kind of demo rig. A lot of my