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That's what happens when you put your fingers where they shouldn't be.dlgoff said:I got a really bad electric shock from one of those back in the day.
That's what happens when you put your fingers where they shouldn't be.dlgoff said:I got a really bad electric shock from one of those back in the day.
Oh, so you weren't just typing then, okay now I get it. You had the back off of the machine and were trying to figure out how to make it run faster...dlgoff said:That's what happens when you put your fingers where they shouldn't be.
I don't remember why I had my fingers in it, but the shock memory is still clear.berkeman said:You had the back off of the machine and were trying to figure out how to make it run faster...
That's clever.dlgoff said:I had an EE course where the instructor gave you a deck of cards that were intentionally out of order and we had to figure out what the program did.
I would use a different adjective, which I would have to give myself an infraction for using here at PF...DaveC426913 said:That's clever.
Look in The Hacker's Dictionary. The ritual for "go faster" was to wave your hands and chant "wugga wugga."berkeman said:You had the back off of the machine and were trying to figure out how to make it run faster
anorlunda said:You're even older if you remember this sound.
You would have loved the spectrum of mechanical monsters called line printers. A line printer prints a line at a time rather than a character at a time.pinball1970 said:The first printers I used were below these at Uni and after to the mid to late 90s.
pinball1970 said:I think that is before my time. It sounds like a machine gun from a 1940s WW2 film!
The first printers I used were below these at Uni and after to the mid to late 90s.
Ibix said:Talking of noisy devices, I take it you've seen these things:
Pfft. How hard can it be?Hornbein said:My mother programmed in machine language. The assembler had yet to be invented.
Wait! Those things exist as commercial products.jedishrfu said:Not so fast. 3-bits for more complicated stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I#/media/File:Digicomp_I.JPG
http://www.retrocmp.com/articles/digi-comp-1/302-digi-comp-1-introduction
The Twiddler is a one-hand chording keyboarding that has been around since at least 2004. It’s now on its third design iteration, which has been available since 2015. This is a handheld keyboard with four rows of 3 keys each. Each row of keys is operated by one of the typist’s four fingers. 12 of the 30 character codes can be typed using one key. For example, you type ‘A’ by pressing the left button on the top row, typically using your index finger. The remaining characters are typed using two keys simultaneously — e.g., ‘I’ requires pressing the right button on the top row and the left button on the 2nd row. Twiddler provides some tutorial software to help you learn and practice the codes. ... The website claims that the average person can type up to 30 wpm.
I had one of those when I was a kid... Also the gravity-and-marbles Digi-Comp-2jedishrfu said:Not so fast. 3-bits for more complicated stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I#/media/File:Digicomp_I.JPG
http://www.retrocmp.com/articles/digi-comp-1/302-digi-comp-1-introduction
Looks like an IBM Selectric typewriter which in the late '70 or early '80s (?) was used as a printer IIR. faster than TTY.pinball1970 said:It's 1980 in this clip. Is this a teleprinter or just an electric typewriter?
It was both. Several brands of electric typewriters were adapted to be driven by computers. Often, they retained the ability to use via the keyboard as well as via the computer port.pinball1970 said:Is this a teleprinter or just an electric typewriter?
For PhysicsForums - I'm since 2017.Mark44 said:Late 80s or early 90s for me... I can remember that I had an account on Compuserve about 1990 back in the days when modems made a lot of beeps and peeps.
Man, the internet was the Wild West of FREE girlie pics!anorlunda said:Who remembers downloading pictures of pretty girls in ASCII HEX dump format, then using a local utility (???) to turn it into a picture?
pinball1970 said:The clip is
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