Computer Basics for Photographers - Bits and Bytes Explained!
Apr 15, 2018 13:53:33 #
therwol
Loc: USA
blackest wrote:
Maybe she walked into them without looking hence the headache.
Reminded me of the person who went to the eye doctor to have her eyes deleted.
Apr 15, 2018 18:38:38 #
therwol wrote:
Reminded me of the person who went to the eye doctor to have her eyes deleted.
Now that we are totally off topic, this one is even better...
Apr 15, 2018 19:19:10 #
therwol
Loc: USA
JohnFrim wrote:
Now that we are totally off topic, this one is even better...
Good one.
Apr 15, 2018 20:43:37 #
therwol wrote:
Someone once told me she took 1000 megagrams of Tylenol for a headache
That's a tough pill to swallow! :-)
Apr 16, 2018 10:13:43 #
therwol
Loc: USA
JohnFrim wrote:
Now that we are totally off topic, this one is even better...
Not off topic. Dogs byte.
Apr 16, 2018 11:58:02 #
therwol wrote:
Not off topic. Dogs byte.
Ouch... I think we are now being "ruff" on the thread.
[One this is certain... UHH folks have a strange/warped/sometimes perverted -- but always enjoyable -- sense of humour.]
Apr 17, 2018 01:15:09 #
therwol
Loc: USA
JohnFrim wrote:
[One this is certain... UHH folks have a strange/warped/sometimes perverted -- but always enjoyable -- sense of humour.]
I honed my sense of humor when I attended MIT in the early 70s, much to the chagrin of everyone I've known since then. Ducking now.
Apr 17, 2018 20:15:06 #
Did you ever hear of the computer that had three values per switch (-1, 0, and 1) - each unit was a trinary digit, or trit; 8 trits made a tryte; and, of course, 4 trits made a tribble (but that's another Star Trek episode).
My first programming was also in 1963, in Fortran. Autocoder was interesting, with a variable word (a word ran to the next word mark).
My first programming was also in 1963, in Fortran. Autocoder was interesting, with a variable word (a word ran to the next word mark).
Apr 22, 2018 20:14:33 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
mwsilvers wrote:
The original S/360 reference card was yellow. I had one of the -0 cards stolen from a desk drawer in 1980. Never found it or discovered the name of the thief.Since you worked on 360/370 architecture I'm surprised you didn't include hexadecimal which was used to represent the machine instructions and core dumps. I still have my green cards. (actually green for system/360 and yellow for System/370). They were an important tool of the trade, but are vintage items now.
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