Thought for the day

[Kevin Garrod]

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who get binary and those who don't

[Arbman Al]

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Kevin Garrod wrote:

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who get binary and those who don't

Have you got the T-Shirt as well?:P

[StagnJag]

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I'm with you 1100100% of the way:P

Dave

[grahamb]

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Love the 000's myself.

I've got a ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom

[Tdm]

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Kevin Garrod wrote:

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who get binary and those who don't

I preferred hexadecimal myself - but like David Cameron I had a "Plan" - but it was a Compiler & stood for Programming Langauge Nineteen hundred. Give me Low level langauges over High level langauges anyday.

Terry

[clunt]

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Terry,

at the risk of sounding a complete computer nerd (which I'm not any more)was that for the ICL 1900 series ?

I cut my teeth operating those with "George 3" back in the 1980's....

[Tdm]

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clunt wrote:

Terry,

at the risk of sounding a complete computer nerd (which I'm not any more)was that for the ICL 1900 series ?

I cut my teeth operating those with "George 3" back in the 1980's....

Absolutely - I started my Computer career with one of the 1st ICL 1901 Mainframes to be installed, & based in a Manufacturing Company in Chorley, Lancs. Then I moved into Local Government & onto ICL 2903 & 2904 mainframes, then later the ME29 series, and finally Series 39 running under the VME Operating System.
I am familiar with & have used George, and programming languages I have used include :- Plan, Fortran, Algol, Cobol, RPG, QPL, etc., etc. I only ever worked with ICL computers (never IBM), but like most things British, ICL were eventually taken over by a foreign Company (Fujitsu of Japan). We lost our Car, Motorbike, Computing, Steel, and a whole host of other manufacturing bases. Is there anything left that Britain does make (& not under license)?!

Terry

[KOY 23]

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Tdm wrote:

Is there anything left that Britain does make (& not under license)?!

Terry

Harveys bitter!!

[al-stag]

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Tdm wrote:

clunt wrote:

Terry,

at the risk of sounding a complete computer nerd (which I'm not any more)was that for the ICL 1900 series ?

I cut my teeth operating those with "George 3" back in the 1980's....

Absolutely - I started my Computer career with one of the 1st ICL 1901 Mainframes to be installed, & based in a Manufacturing Company in Chorley, Lancs. Then I moved into Local Government & onto ICL 2903 & 2904 mainframes, then later the ME29 series, and finally Series 39 running under the VME Operating System.
I am familiar with & have used George, and programming languages I have used include :- Plan, Fortran, Algol, Cobol, RPG, QPL, etc., etc. I only ever worked with ICL computers (never IBM), but like most things British, ICL were eventually taken over by a foreign Company (Fujitsu of Japan). We lost our Car, Motorbike, Computing, Steel, and a whole host of other manufacturing bases. Is there anything left that Britain does make (& not under license)?!

Terry

If its a competition to discover who manipulated bytes first, bet you didn't write in Mercury Autocode though - that would really date you (like me!)? http://www.computer50.org/kgill/mercury/mercury.htmlIf I recall correctly I did a bit of pythagoras whilst at RAE and submitted it on punched tape

Al


Now, what did I do with that abacus?...

[chopperman]

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My eyelids have got very heavy. Let me know if I snore!

[p.gib]

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& I thought football was dull!

[DJT]

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p.gib wrote:

& I thought football was dull!

It is......................

Dave

[Tdm]

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chopperman wrote:

My eyelids have got very heavy. Let me know if I snore!

You shouldn't spend so much time watching "Strictly Come Dancing". Try changing channels Keith.

[chopperman]

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Do you mean to tell me that there are other channels apart from BBC, home of 'Top Gear'?

I have heard that there is something called Sky, do I access that from my laptop? Doesn't that sound techno freak.

Keith

[StagnJag]

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chopperman wrote:

Do you mean to tell me that there are other channels apart from BBC, home of 'Top Gear'?

I have heard that there is something called Sky, do I access that from my laptop? Doesn't that sound techno freak.

Keith

I thought the 'Dave' channel was the home of topgear

Regards

Dave:P