At 01:03:09 on Tuesday Tuesday 15 September 2009, Patrick Shanahan
* Stan Goodman
[09-14-09 16:27]: Replace "room full of diodes" with "magnetic core memories" and lots of vacuum tubes and you have it.
Well, when I was a little younger *diodes* were vacuum tubes, consisting of an emmitter and a collector and a lot of heat.
You can't do much computing or anything else with "a bunch of diodes". Switches are done with double triodes, e.g. 6SN7. in the form of flip-flops.
The date is what it is. Hard to believe? I don't know why you are ridiculing it, technology then was obviously not what it is now.
obviously. But that would put you in your mid to late 70's provided you were ~18 when you started "building and operating computers" pre 1950.
More. You can find my age on my website, which you can locate through Google. =;-/8
I seem to have pissed you off, mostly because you've have a chip on your shoulder from the first.
you cannot and no chip, but perhaps an attitude :^) But then everybody has on of those tooooo.
I would not be proud of it.
Sorry.
nope
An entirely unsurprising and typical response.
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