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8Would it be practical to do so?
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880251 replied to the thread Discussion Obsolete and Obsolescent: i286/386/486.At my work we tasked an 80286 system to evaluating OS/2 Warp (the IBM OS), it was the first protected mode operating system for PCs and...
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8If the cache line size for x64 is 64 bytes does that imply that every access to main memory results in 64 bytes being read, even for say...
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880251 reacted to kanewolf's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with
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My college courses for many programming languages were on cards. When modems got to 28.8 or 56K, then dial up became available. I... -
880251 replied to the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks?.In the movie Koyaanisqatsi they briefly show a woman doing data entry on keypunch cards. I've never seen a keypunch machine. One of the...
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880251 reacted to bill001g's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with Like.
I am one of those old guys who coded in cobol and fortran. Was so glad they no longer used punched cards. I soon discovered though I...
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880251 replied to the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks?.I've never seen a color 3270. I had thought IBM came out w/a newer terminal, 3151? The color 3270 must have been really rare.
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880251 replied to the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks?.@kanewolf I wouldn't be surprised if the 3270 terminals were bulletproof. They were made of heavy gauge steel -- much heavier than that...
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880251 reacted to kanewolf's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with Like.
Those 3270 keyboards were bullet proof!!! You could easily bludgeon someone to death with one of them, and still type your resume...
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880251 replied to the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks?.I once went into the cold room that housed the IBM 3090, there was a gigantic cabling trunk that came through the false floor and went...
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880251 reacted to Ralston18's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with Like.
For me it depended somewhat on where I was working at the time. In a couple of places the mainframe types were very elite and very...
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880251 reacted to COLGeek's post in the thread How can I complain to the manufacturer of Hong Hua fans about the quality of the products? with Like.
Unless you take the necessary precautions and have the necessary experience, members should not be mucking around inside PSUs. It can be...
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880251 reacted to Eximo's post in the thread Micro Center is quickly losing me, a mild rant with Like.
I think motherboard margins are near a low point right now. Firstly there are a lot less motherboard brands for Intel and AMD in the US...
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880251 reacted to wyliec2's post in the thread Micro Center is quickly losing me, a mild rant with Like.
I hadn't realized the $20 savings had gone away... Even though $20 is relatively immaterial, t did influence me to buy CPU, mobo and...
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880251 reacted to Rokinamerica's post in the thread Micro Center is quickly losing me, a mild rant with Like.
The intersection of same or next day delivery online and the slow death of remaining Brick and Mortar stores. They most likely have to...
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