Bug Report #15 - Select -o- Dial Updates

[Unimatic1140]

Wow

me too! That machine is what I first learned what "if-then-else" meant back in 1981!

Go old Basic, not even Basica yet.

 

[lordkenmore]

That TRS 80 brings back memories. There were a few TRS-80s in use in schools when I went through.

My 8th grade general science teacher was Leo Christopherson. This is a name people who remember the TRS-80 might remember--he was a game programmer for the TRS-80. I think he was a fairly well known, once. In any case, I owe a lot to him--my first practical computer experience came in his class. The first time I saw a word processor was in science, when we were required to write up one lab report using the word processor. It seems to me we also used TRS-80s in at least one lab experiment. Contrast this to the math class I had that year which used the same TRS-80 lab--to run a program that was, for practical purposes, glorified flash cards. (This wasn't so much to teach us about math, from what one teacher said. It was so the school could pretend that we were getting "valuable computer experience!" Yeah, right. There is so much need in the real world for people who can effectively run a math flash card program.)

 

[lordkenmore]

That TRS-80 Model 3 above is exactly what I remember using. The only real difference is that school computer lab did not have floppy drives on the student's computers. (Newer computer users might not know this, but floppy drives were once expensive--hundreds of dollars, not the "it will linger for six months at 99 cents at Goodwill" product they are today.)

Instead of floppy drives, the student computers were connected to the teacher's TRS-80, which had 2 floppy drives. They had two different server systems--one approach that acted like the student computers were loading off a cassette drive (remember those?), and another that allowed them to directly access the floppy drives. The first approach was faster for loading a program--everyone could get loaded at once. The second could only have one student computer accessing the teacher's computer at a time.

I also remember seeing a few TRS-80 Color Computers (the Co Co) floating about. These were for the home market, competing against Commodore C64 and Apple II series. The first computer I ever actually used was a Color Computer, bought as a classroom computer by the PTA.

 

[lordkenmore]

"I guess I really cannot be too concerned with 12+ year old computers, but maybe I can change the graphics to be more obvious."

Robert, I REALLY appreciate that you are conscious of the problems of older computers, and you're taking reasonable steps to make this site usable. I'm using one that is old, although not 12 years old, and I really appreciate web sites that DON'T cause the system to slow down to the speed of that trickle that I see out of a Kenmore lint filter towards the end of drain. (Originally, I'd thought of using that tired molasses analogy--but this is a washer site!)

Then, there are people here who sometimes run old systems for the fun of it. Come to think of it, it's been a while since I tried this site with BeOS. Hmmm, maybe that can be my weekend fun.

 

[nurdlinger]

Different "Report" Icons

OK, right now on my browser at home, the "report" icon is the familiar red circle with the white dash. On the browser at work, there is text that says REPORT and some icon I cannot make out. Both browsers are Firefox 3.6.8. Whatz happ'nin'?

 

[nurdlinger]

Different "Report" Icons

In the several hours since my earlier post, the seven-day login expired and I signed in again. Now the browser at home also shows the REPORT and the mystery thing. I guess for some reason I don't understand the icon image on this browser was stale and the check-for-updated-items did not pick it up.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Hi Tom, the icon is a flame (or my attempt at one)