#276: News Show, FSL 3.0 Round 2

[ThotFullGuy]

Not baggin’ on Caprica, but I honestly can’t remember whether I watched the finale.

You should check it out. Some cool stuff just worth watching for it’s own sake.

[Gryper]

I love playing as a biotic in ME2 also. How god-like you are as a biotic depends on difficulty level. If you play on anything easier than hardcore, most enemies have no armors/shields/barriers so all of your abilities toss people around like a rag doll. The waves of husks are nothing to even a weak shockwave. On hardcore, everything has at least one form of armor, shields, or barrier and your abilities are far less god-like. You’re forced to actually fight off the husks and you tend to choose your team by who you expect to fight, i.e. fire for armor, overload for shields, etc… Not knocking it though. Some times I go back and play at a slightly easier setting just so I can be a god like that. It’s so much fun decimating against enemies that have no chance.

Welcome to the forum pisumnux!

[pisumnux]

Thank you. Just started listening a few weeks ago.

[Shooter]

Thanks to Juan and Nightwing we know that IBM turned 100 on June 16, 2011. If you are reading this post, you owe a great bit of thanks to IBM’s early computing pioneering efforts.

To give some more information surrounding IBM’s participation in the early development of computers, check out these two webpages:

1. Interested in early digital computing? Thank American Air Defense systems, IBM, MIT Lincoln Labs and Bell Labs.

http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/History/earlydigitalcomputing.html

2. First large-scale electronic computer manufactured in quantity, thank IBM and their IBM 701 machine.

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_intro.html

The Rest: For other computer firsts (non-IBM specific), check out these webpages:

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,990596,00.html

http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/701/701_intro.html

~Shooter Out

[Shooter]

Have you checked out isthatshowstillon.org ? You should!

Thanks Juan! That’s hilarious!

~Shooter Out

[dxf]

Thanks to Juan and Nightwing we know that IBM turned 100 on June 16, 2011. If you are reading this post, you owe a great bit of thanks to IBM’s early computing pioneering efforts.

Huh, you said “I BM.”

[Shooter]

Huh, you said “I BM.”

Only after morning tea.

[ThotFullGuy]

Thanks to Juan and Nightwing we know that IBM turned 100 on June 16, 2011. If you are reading this post, you owe a great bit of thanks to IBM’s early computing pioneering efforts.
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Fascinating topic. I was at a conference this week and had a fascinating conversation with someone about the effort preserve old computers. And not only preserve them, but get them working.

It’s an intense computer geek hobby effort going on, and it’s incredibly challenging. Thanks to the Internet, people from across the world are sharing information about how to find old parts or emulate peripherals to old systems, etc.
There’s a lot of old hardware out there like PDP-11s, VAXes that geeks gave gotten working.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is among the people involved in this effort.
Check out http://www.pdpplanet.com/

And there’s http://www.old-computers.com/

For my part, I remember computer class in 9th grade we used computers with punch cards. But by 12-grade we used some kind a VAX system with actual terminals with screens and keyboards.
What and long and fast trip it’s been!

[Gryper]

In my Junior and Senior years of high school, those of us in the Data Processing classes helped the do the schools attendance reports on an IBM 557(or older model) Interpreter from punched cards to create printed reports. And my first job as an operator was also on this type of IBM equipment. An Interpreter, Collator and a Card Sorter. All used punch cards, wired program boards…no tape(z), no hard drive(z), no memory. See links below:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/sorter.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/collator.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/interpreter.html

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