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Updating the Computer, Circa 1969

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-move-the-larger-stone-doorstop dept.

Coudal points out a "Swell article from UK Magazine 'Design' from 1969," excerpting "Designing a computer is a continuous process in which technological breakthroughs must be matched by new hardware, and new hardware by new software, without invalidating the systems already in use."

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  1. Come on. . . by Who235 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read about that 37 years ago on Digg.

  2. l 903A central processor by Ankou · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you put your ear against it you can hear the hampsters running!

    1. Re:l 903A central processor by SuperQ · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yea, how could you.. your slashdot UID is not nearly low enough.

    2. Re:l 903A central processor by Joebert · · Score: 4, Funny

      And if you put your ear against the hamsters, they'll bite the shit out of you.

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  3. tagged as "rawwrrrr" by bunions · · Score: 3, Funny

    The girl in the photo on the first page is H-A-W-T HOT!

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    1. Re:tagged as "rawwrrrr" by Ankou · · Score: 2, Funny

      It is the 60's so its more like she puts the GRR in swiGER baby yeah!

    2. Re:tagged as "rawwrrrr" by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2, Funny

      "The girl in the photo on the first page is H-A-W-T HOT!"

      If vintage porn has taught me anything, she's probably surprisingly hairy under there. You've been warned!

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  4. Re:Conversational Computing by Professor+S.+Brown · · Score: 0, Funny

    This is all irrelevant. We have been using 'conversational computing' in our labs for a few months, and its been a complete disaster. We have several clusters set up right now expending countless peta-FLOPS calculating the intersection of a toilet and pope, and we would probably be finished by now where it not for 'conversational computing'. Had we have finished calculating the intersection of a toilet and a pope, we could have begun calculating the intersection of much larger objects, like the intersetcion of a farm and a railway station.

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  5. Portable version by marciot · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah.... I much rather have a portable computer...

  6. heh by icepick72 · · Score: 2, Funny

    1969 called and they want their article back

  7. clearly... by blackcoot · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... these people never heard about vista ;)

  8. A blast from the past... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, 1969 was about the last time attractive women in skirts were seen anywhere near a data center... :)

    1. Re:A blast from the past... by freemywrld · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yea, we're a lot more sensible nowadays, and wear pants.

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  9. And to think... by Illbay · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...a mere TEN YEARS LATER, one could purchase a TRS-80 at Radio Shack, featuring 4K of RAM and using a casette tape recorder for storage, for only a thousand bucks or so.

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  10. Successful model 1911 series... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    International Computers Ltd. whose highly successful 1900 Series computer... Blah blah blah. That series is dead.

    However, the Colt 1911 model still works fine - not really a computer, unless it involves questions where the answer is BANG!

  11. British Computer Joke by Clark_Griswold · · Score: 3, Funny

    Q: Why don't the British make computers anymore? A: Because they couldn't find a way to make them leak oil.

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  12. I Grew up with those things by Quiberon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can still program in PLAN (its assembler), and CES-Basic. And FORTRAN.

    1. Re:I Grew up with those things by mkosmul · · Score: 2, Funny

      After all, FORTRAN is basically assembler, only less readable

  13. Re:Yeah, but.... by Gleng · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, but it'll probaby run NetBSD.

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