manning5 wrote:
Now, those are not commensurate! My very first job in the industry was to design, develop and produce a special computer for SAC, and then a second one to drive a tabletop map system using the official mapping systems of that time. So, I cut my teeth on Boolean algebra and the card technology the firm had developed for the Minuteman missile system. We tried later at IBM/Federal Systems to get permission to build an IBM 7090 in a shoebox, not knowing that the IBM PC was going to be unveiled shortly on the commercial side of IBM. I am kinda an old hand in the computer world, but my forgetter has ramped up massively of late. Like which is AC/DC? One oscillates and the other doesn't.
Now, those are not commensurate! My very first job... (
show quote)