Computer programming technology from decades past

They had compilers back in 1970 o.O?

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

They had compilers back in 1970 o.O?

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They had high level programming languages even before 1970, so the answer should be yes.

wait... They had computers in 1970 o.o? I thought they only had the massive one that you walked inside, and it was only capable of printing paper or something D:

Just in case you are not joking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...uting_hardware

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

They had computers in 1970 o.o? I thought they only had the massive one that you walked inside

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A quick search of the Web brings up this simplified timeline. I have seen others, though one computing history book that I really liked had a fantastic collection of photographs of those "ancient" machines.

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

it was only capable of printing paper or something D:

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Eh, wouldn't that make it a printer instead of a computer? :D

I dunno, I just saw an image of a BIG thing, where people worked inside, and kinda many, and in the middle of this massive machine, there came paper out xP but I think that was in the 50's and the first computer ever, if I remember correctly... Was in some school book xP
Holy ........! 1936 o.o! There weren't even colors back then D:

I've got shoes older than you.

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Originally Posted by Dino

I've got shoes older than you.

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Nice of you to show up grandpa :-)

Hey, nice to be able to show up!

I'm the new generation of idiocrazy(If that even is a word) >: D
Meh, old stuff is old, and useless, it's the new stuff that is important, forget the past, don't think about the future and live in the now ^^

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

forget the past, don't think about the future and live in the now

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Very profound, spiritually. :)

It's what I live by xP People worry too much, me thinks :P

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

I'm the new generation of idiocrazy(If that even is a word) >: D
Meh, old stuff is old, and useless, it's the new stuff that is important, forget the past, don't think about the future and live in the now ^^

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is that why my quad processor alpha from 1995 still outperforms a new core 2?

the young may be faster and stronger, but us old ........ers are sneaky and fight dirty. And I have computers older than you...

I have a PC that has loads of blue light, and even lights text that says IPOWER (You people should know the case now xP) Well, it's one of those Packard Bell iPower cases, and is that processor not HUGE? xP

Here are a few of my older pieces, not the oldest of course, but fairly old. The chip is an 8250 PIC, the processor and motherboard still work, and I still use ralph browns book as a reference every now and then (It's a bit behind the times, but there are some calls that never change). The book on the 8088 actually did come in useful not too long ago when I was workign on a microcontroller project that used the 80188.

You have a pentium VHC movie o.O? What's it about?

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

You have a pentium VHC movie o.O? What's it about?

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Thats not a VHC movie, its a copy of Windows95™ OEM Service Release 2.1b, the one that enabled USB support. It's a legitimate copy BTW, just the original media died a long time ago. I have a couple of flopies of it too, and Windows 3.1. I used to have DOS 2.11 as well, but that one got lost a few moves ago.

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Originally Posted by Akkernight

I'm the new generation of idiocrazy(If that even is a word) >: D
Meh, old stuff is old, and useless, it's the new stuff that is important, forget the past, don't think about the future and live in the now ^^

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In fact, why not forget what you learned yesterday?

Forgetting the past and not thinking about the future sounds like a good way to do something really stupid.

And I always do really stupid stuff xD but what you learn, still remains in your head, can't just forget it, just don't think about tomorrow's problems now, and yesterday's wrongs, or something xP
And don't tell me that computer parts where that BIG back in the day o.o!

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Here are a few of my older pieces, not the oldest of course, but fairly old. The chip is an 8250 PIC, the processor and motherboard still work, and I still use ralph browns book as a reference every now and then (It's a bit behind the times, but there are some calls that never change). The book on the 8088 actually did come in useful not too long ago when I was workign on a microcontroller project that used the 80188.

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Hmmm.. what is that monstrosity behind the dollar bill that looks like a PCI Express video card? Surely that is not the chip cooler, is it?

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Forgetting the past and not thinking about the future sounds like a good way to do something really stupid.

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If you could forget about everything, entirely, you would not be able to do anything, but life would probably be quite amusing as everything would be new. All the time... I'm starting to wish I was a goldfish.

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Hmmm.. what is that monstrosity behind the dollar bill that looks like a PCI Express video card? Surely that is not the chip cooler, is it?

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Heh, it's the case for the daughter board the processor is attached to. You plugged that monstrosity into the motherboard just like you would a Super Nintendo or N64 cartridge into the Nintendo system. A CPU cooler would then go on the side of that black case.

I remember when I got a PII-300 and it was one of the fastest chips available. Completely blew away my Pentium 100!