The Black Hole......

Jump to Latest
#2,101
I still go by my conjecture that I have held since 1972 when I started on a PDP11.

I don't care what OS it is, if its a computer, its broken.

as far as I am concerned, we are still in the early infancy of computing.

used Berkley Spice as a command line for years. LTSpice is much nicer.

Cheers
Alan
 
Last edited:
#2,102
First computer I used was a PDP8, paper tape and teletype linked via a 300bps acoustic coupler from school to a local university! One it was set up they had to prise me away from the keyboard with a crowbar 🙂

Before that I built some diode logic gates on a pegboard system... Battery, a few bulbs and logic is in action!
 
#2,105
My first computer DIY with Z80.🙂
 

Attachments

  • galaksija b.jpg
    galaksija b.jpg
    477.8 KB · Views: 219
#2,106
hhoyt said:
Our graphics stations tended to be either Unix…
Click to expand...

Which includes any machine running macOS. And since any of those easily run Windows, other UNIX variants, and even DOS (i had one client that had to install a Mac to run their old DPS sw).

macOS also dominates the movie/TV production industry. As macOS machines has been shown to have a significant reduction in lifetime cost, the fiduciary benefits are starting to take effect, and there is a huge halo effect do to the integrated, macOS/iPhone/iPad environment.

macOS is for those who just want to use the tool and not fart around.

The graphics & music producers i ran into were almost always Macs. We were involved in the beginning of DTP, been a beta tester for PageMaker.

dave
 
#2,109
my first computer was at school, bigger than a coffee machine, toggle switches to load a paper tape reader, then load paper tape, then use a TTY terminal, magnetic core memory was around 1k or 4k. then I got an Apple II, 48k, wonderful!

Back then Apple were the good guys, m-soft the evil empire. How things have changed, Apple now clearly the evil empire although I still use their stuff.

The story of Apple is not far from Animal Farm...
 
#2,110
I got my first MAC in early 1985 or perhaps earlier. I didn't buy it, my company (Lineage) did, and it first went into operation in late 1984.
Well, I see that many of you grew up with programming and even building computers. I only operated them in the '60's and 70's. I never really learned programming, it just did not jive with me for some reason. My first computer was the IBM7090 (as well as the 1401) at Lockheed Aircraft in 1963, (like my avatar) that I learned to operate. This was a difficult job that was really boring, (except for emergencies) and it started a hatred for big computers, rather than a love for them.
 
#2,112
My recommendation is that you stick to computers, guys, and let Richard and me design the analog circuits! '-)
About 10 years ago Bob Cordell gave me the same (SPICE) challenge. I said to him that "I don't need no stinkin' SPICE" at the time. I still don't.
 
Last edited:
#2,113
gpauk said:
First computer I used was a PDP8, paper tape and teletype linked via a 300bps acoustic coupler from school to a local university! One it was set up they had to prise me away from the keyboard with a crowbar 🙂

Before that I built some diode logic gates on a pegboard system... Battery, a few bulbs and logic is in action!
Click to expand...

The Unis mainframe, stacks of punch cards. Started using Macs in studios in the early 90s as the front end for the New England Digital Synclavier and Direct to Disk recorders. Than in late 90s Pro stools became popular and would only run on Macs. You started seeing them in a lot of studios.
 
#2,114
My former employer was/is a big supplier to A.

I remember reading an article in HBR yeas ago about how companies had to keep suppliers 'under control' wrt pricing, supply performance, innovation, quarterly cost-downs and the holy grail was open book pricing in amongst other things.

Anyone that talks to me about 'win-win' in business is in la la land. If you're in the supply chain, one of your objectives is to eat into the margin on the input side (force costs down for example) and eat into the output side (confiscatory pricing if you can).

A are a prime example of this.
 
#2,118
For the record, I chose to design with circuits that I find work better than anything else, some of which I actually invented. Trying 'new' designs is just not worth it, so I will leave Class D, (first understood by me in 1965 from articles in WW), complicated current mirrors, etc to you guys. See you at the listening tests!
 
#2,119
john curl said:
For the record, I chose to design with circuits that I find work better than anything else, some of which I actually invented. Trying 'new' designs is just not worth it, so I will leave Class D, (first understood by me in 1965 from articles in WW), complicated current mirrors, etc to you guys. See you at the listening tests!
Click to expand...

John, had you anything to do with the ML20.x amps ?

Hans
 
#2,120
No, I designed the original prototype of the Levinson ML-2, (formerly the JC-3) originally in 1974, then I gave it to Mark Levinson to build in 1975. Never got a penny in compensation for it.
 

Attachments

  • Picture 132.png
    Picture 132.png
    569.4 KB · Views: 212
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom