talking about '68 and '69...

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Subject: talking about '68 and '69...
Name: MS
Date: 1/24/2006 7:16:34 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 66.1.252.30
In Reply to: Re: You're not alone posted by LED
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and yes, it was a breadboard with a lot of wires and a few push buttons and sliders but it could do calculations and had a display...

hand-drawn on vellum with a few lightbulbs to illuminate the correct numbers

that's about 40 years ... or close. Too bad I don't have any pictures of that one. That was the time when they used punchcards to program Apollo 11's landing on the moon...

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Re: talking about '68 and '69... - Bob -[1/24/2006 9:58:06 PM (GMT-7)]
AND - LED -[1/24/2006 8:16:22 PM (GMT-7)]
- It was a Fischer Technik - MS -[1/25/2006 8:59:38 AM (GMT-7)]
  - Re: It was a Fischer Technik - LED -[1/25/2006 9:03:46 AM (GMT-7)]
    - Re: It was a Fischer Technik - MS -[1/25/2006 12:30:56 PM (GMT-7)]
      - make that - MS -[1/25/2006 12:31:25 PM (GMT-7)]
        LMAO - LED -[1/25/2006 1:58:08 PM (GMT-7)]
        Re: LMAO - MS -[1/25/2006 8:47:22 PM (GMT-7)]
        Re: LMAO - LED -[1/25/2006 10:03:36 PM (GMT-7)]
        Re: LMAO - MS -[1/26/2006 5:31:19 PM (GMT-7)]
        Re: LMAO - Bob -[1/26/2006 10:34:53 PM (GMT-7)]

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