- 1. Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Edward Anderson" <eandy01@tcnmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 15:20:17 -0700 (PDT)
- Never considered that some of the stalwarts of this list would be "old geeks". While I never wrote code(execpt college 101 intro to computer on a 360) I did have an early exp mid 70's in sales of "co
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00025.html (8,190 bytes)
- 2. Re: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: Doug Mathews <mathews@uga.edu>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 20:55:48 -0400
- there is at least one geek here...I started in 1968 on an IBM 7094/1401 and then the 360/65 on up! Doug
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00044.html (8,590 bytes)
- 3. Re: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 19:38:31 -0700
- Well remember, it has only been 10 years since the internet started to become of interest to non-geeks. Before then you could safely assume that the person on the other side of the keyboard had at le
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00045.html (7,540 bytes)
- 4. RE: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:18:15 -0700
- Ok, you got me beat. I didn't get started until about 1971, on an IBM 1130 that my high school class was allowed to use occasionally. Randall
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00047.html (7,076 bytes)
- 5. RE: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:43:16 -0700
- Nowadays if you look on campus, the geeks have some sort of personal computer that they carry around with them. Earlier, it was a Programmable calculator attached to their belt in a holster. In my ti
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00049.html (7,706 bytes)
- 6. RE: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 20:55:18 -0700
- Whaddya mean "nowadays" ? Both PDAs & laptops have been around since the 20th century ... Today at the absolute minimum a true geek has at least a wireless Internet connection plus GPS, so his PDA k
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00051.html (7,271 bytes)
- 7. RE: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:28:09 -0400
- Our little cinema project has inganeers working in 7 countries spaced out pretty evenly around the world. My favourite technical design tool to keep it all moving is a pen and a quad pad. Around the
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00052.html (9,838 bytes)
- 8. Re: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: Btmfdchn@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:34:18 EDT
- Introducing the new Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge device, trade-named - BOOK is a revolutionary breakthrough in technology; no wires, no electronic circuits, no batteries, nothing to be connected or
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00053.html (9,630 bytes)
- 9. RE: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:59:06 -0700
- I assume this refers to Ambrose Fleming's 1904 "oscillation valve" ? Hardly a new invention, the effect had been demonstrated years earlier by Edison and was, in fact, known as "The Edison Effect".
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00054.html (7,700 bytes)
- 10. Re: Geeks (score: 1)
- Author: "Kurtis" <tr4driver@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 04:51:57 -0500
- And for everyone else there was FidoNet. :) Kurtis Jones Russellville, Arkansas 1963 TR4 - CT19389L 1959 AH Bugeye - AN5L23250 www.geocities.com/tr4_1963
- /html/triumphs/2005-06/msg00056.html (7,583 bytes)
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