[NSRCA-discussion] website back up

Ron Van Putte vanputte at cox.net
Sat Dec 4 07:16:00 AKST 2010


Hey!  We didn't have to "wind up the radio".  We had to wind up the  
escapement rubber band.  Big difference!

Ron VP

On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bob Richards wrote:

> Showing my age? Yeah, I wrote Fortran programs in school - on punch  
> cards. My first personal computer was a TRS80 MIII that I paid  
> $1000 for, 16k memory and cassette tape program storage. I worked  
> on point-of-sale systems ("POS" - LOL) that had 32k core memory. I  
> still have a cash register board somewhere with core memory on it.
>
> Well, at least I never flew a plane with a radio that required  
> winding up the radio. :-)
>
> Bob R.
>
> --- On Sat, 12/4/10, Bob Kane <getterflash at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> You are showing your age.  You could see the "bits".
>
> Bob Kane
> getterflash at yahoo.com
>
> --- On Fri, 12/3/10, Bob Richards <bob at toprudder.com> wrote:
>
> Core memory, I bet!
>
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