On 10/2/2010 5:20 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 16:52:32 -0400,
wrote:

On 10/2/2010 12:59 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:49:57 -0400,
wrote:

On 10/2/2010 7:52 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"A. wrote in message
news On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:10:41 -0400, willshak wrote:

http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/0...an-light-bulb-
ge-stops-making-its-iconic-bulb-in/


I'm buying as many bulbs as I can. They will be worth millions some day.

I really doubt it. The CFLs keep getting better and they are cheaper to
operate. Keeping your head in the sand is your option though. How is
that 8088 computer working for you? DOS makes it so simple to use.

Hey! Watch your mouth! I still have one of those over in the corner,
there. (Really need to light it up some day, and see if the hard drive
still spins...)

I've got four 1/4 meg RAM sticks, would they fit or is your RAM built
on-board..G

Individual socketed chips, 9 chips per bank. Max 640k, once you found
the daughter board that fit in an ISA slot. Remember those long plastic
tubes the chips came in? I still have a couple full tubes stashed at
work, leftover visual aids from a class I used to teach once a year.
Some idiot threw out all the later memory chips, and the CPUs, that went
with it. I used to set them up on the front table in timeline fashion,
to explain Moore's law to these non-techies, and how the hardware they
were supporting for end-users had changed. Some of those later 486 and
early pentium chips could have been made into jewelry- those rows of
gold-plated pins were downright pretty.

I've opened plenty of the "old machines" and marveled at them. Seems
like the hard drives weighed 10 lbs. and would make a good door stop.
Never started working PC's until the 286, just before the 386. Been
building my own machines ever since.

I've seen different items made from parts. Peoples imagination can be
funny.

Here are two "bugs".

http://www.snipe.net/wp-content/uplo...09/10/bugs.jpg


Do you remember the old ads for mainframes where artists made whole sets
of animals out of discrete components?

http://www.dvq.com/ads/honeywell_dm_4-70.jpg

http://www.dvq.com/ads/honeywell_115_dm_4_70.jpg

http://www.dvq.com/ads/acm/honeywell_acm_72.pdf

Found at:

http://www.dvq.com/oldcomp/oldads.htm

TDD