Pictures of computers in use from the '60s through '80s. I think my fave is the business guy in the oddly colored suit using a TRS-80 with cassette interface.
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tommyrot - Nov 18, 2007 1:16:54 am PST #3480 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NoiseDesign - Nov 18, 2007 1:21:41 am PST #3481 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
I love the 60's picture of a line drawing of a woman in a bikini. Computers and porn, they just belong together.
DXMachina - Nov 18, 2007 1:33:51 am PST #3482 of 25497
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I think my fave is the business guy in the oddly colored suit using a TRS-80 with cassette interface.
Did you notice that he's writing with his right hand while typing with his left? He's a true multitasker.
Most of the pictures look to be from the very late '70s to the very early '80s, all those PETs, Trash 80's, and CoCos
Our very first system at work was one of these. The not so little box to the right of the TRS-80 is a 5 MB hard drive, which cost $5000 in 1984 dollars.
NoiseDesign - Nov 18, 2007 1:42:13 am PST #3483 of 25497
Our wings are not tired
I have a price list from a computer store in San Diego from about 1984 that has a few hard drives on it. None bigger than 5MB and at least one was close to $10,000 if I remember right.
omnis_audis - Nov 18, 2007 9:37:38 am PST #3484 of 25497
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
The guy rippiing paper as if to say its not needed anymore. That was hillarious! Also the boy carrying the computer with the girl carrying the tape drive was cute, in a "can I carry your books for you" kind of way.
Gudanov - Nov 19, 2007 5:02:02 am PST #3485 of 25497
Coding and Sleeping
I remember when I thought my 40MB hard drive was huge. Nowadays I'm thinking I could really use one of the new terrabyte drives.
Dana - Nov 19, 2007 7:24:43 am PST #3486 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Okay, can someone more web-savvy than me tell me if I'm being crazy or just plain wrong?
We're trying to publish files to a website. The person who used to update the website only knows that she used Front Page to do it. The screenshot she sent me said:
"Specify the location to publish your web to:" 134.xxx.xx.xx:8000/foldername
(Assume that that's a correct IP address with an http and a real folder name and everything.)
To me, that says she's using FTP to send the files to the webserver. Am I wrong? Is there another option?
Tom Scola - Nov 19, 2007 7:27:41 am PST #3487 of 25497
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It sounds like their using HTTP to send files, with Front Page extensions enabled on the server.
tommyrot - Nov 19, 2007 7:29:38 am PST #3488 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yeah, I think that's the case.
Is it possible to send files using HTTP if you don't have Front Page? Can some ftp clients do that (i.e. specify HTTP instead of FTP)?
eta: I think you can mount a web server (i.e. an HTTP address) to Windows Explorer. So then you could just drag and drop....
Dana - Nov 19, 2007 7:29:46 am PST #3489 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh. I don't really know anything about Front Page. Crap. Is this bad?