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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">Hi all,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Coming in late on this one after a tour of duty across the ditch, teaching .NET and SOA to Aussies.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">My first introduction to programming was Cantran at Canterbury University - 1971- A modified version of Fortran. That's where I met John Bird .... carrying our card trays to the computer centre. The size of your tray was a status symbol, with a compile cycle of 24 hours (not the 1-10 seconds we now experience). Oh, and wearing a white coat was an even higher status symbol because it meant you were an operator ....</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Then in 1978 I invested in a "Scientific Cambridge" single board computer with a National SC/AMP (8060 processor), which later got surpassed by the 8070 series ... built NZ's first ever electronic petrol pump with that. National left the market after that (bump) leaving us with Intel . Motorola..... the rest is history. Colin I think followed in those steps too.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Somewhere in between we had CPM, Trash 80's, Pets and BBC computers. Oh and a love affair with a Sord. Nice but unique. Them 8086, 80186,80286,80386, 486,586 when the Pentium name stuck (1 .... 4) ... so PII etc and on.... </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">What we have lost in all of this somehow, is the time between compiles, the time that technology has taken away, no time to breathe in between .... excuse me while I go walk on the beach and enjoy the things you cannot extract from a monitor!!! <g></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#000000 ">Enjoy your's Colin!</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">kr</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">Gary</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#000000 ">A</span><span style=
"color:#FF0000 "><b>t 18:12 on 24/03/2006 you wrote </b></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>To : delphi@ns3.123.co.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>CC : </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>From: Colin/Mina, colmin@ihug.co.nz</span></span>
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"color:#008000 ">>Content Type: text/plain</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>Attached: </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Kylie has since trumped me however :-</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> I also remember toggling switches on the PDP-8 to make it perform</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>industrial control functions, but a long time before that I built another</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>industrial controller for Formica Ltd. This was based on the use of</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>'Dekatrons' (Vacuum tube 10 position counters) with 10 cathodes which would</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>provide a voltage output depending upon where the gas discharge inside had</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>been pulsed to. I think I used two tubes in series for a count of 100 (or</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>maybe 20). These specific cathode voltages were combined using transistor</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>'AND' gates and diode 'OR' gates together with series or parallel machine</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>switches to turn on and off motors and air cylinders appropriate for the</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>function required at that particular part of the machine cycle.</span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> It worked exceedingly well, this device using a program counter and hard</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>wired logic instead of software. I wish I'd thought to patent the basic</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>process.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>If there's a prize for the oldest oldie, I received my first pension payment</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>this week.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Cheers</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">> Colin</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>C R Dillicar</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Colmin Associates</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Ph. +64 9 834-4040</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>colmin@ihug.co.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>"Avast" AV checked</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>----- Original Message ----- </span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>From: "Phil Scadden" <p.scadden@gns.cri.nz></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi@ns3.123.co.nz></span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:27 AM</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Subject: RE: [DUG] You say potatoe I say....</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> > Started PDP-8,</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Okay, You win. You are the oldest man here!</span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Matthew - at some point I got a sharp EL5150. Its beside me still and</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> does all I want in a calculator.</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> ----------------------------------------------------------</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Phil Scadden, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> 764 Cumberland St, Private Bag 1930, Dunedin, New Zealand</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Ph +64 3 4799663, fax +64 3 477 5232</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>> _______________________________________________</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Delphi mailing list</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> Delphi@ns3.123.co.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>> http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</span></span>
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<span style=
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"color:#008000 ">>_______________________________________________</span></span>
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<span style=
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>Delphi@ns3.123.co.nz</span></span>
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<span style=
"font-family:MS Sans Serif "><span style=
"color:#008000 ">>http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi</span></span>
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