Test my ftp please

[kwajr]

ftp://dvd.servu4me.com user is dbs pw is 1234

 

[SimpleSimon]

There's no way I would download a file from an FTP server operated by someone I didn't know - let alone someone with a posting history such as yours.

 

[kwajr]

ok

There's no way I would download a file from an FTP server operated by someone I didn't know - let alone someone with a posting history such as yours.

ok but have you heard of virus scanners and its for my friends just needed to try it

 

[SimpleSimon]

Quote edited to reasonable English, hint, hint.

OK. Have you heard of virus scanners? The FTP server is for my friends. I just needed to try it.

No. I've only been working with computers for 30 years - no clue what a virus is. Not since the first one. It ran on an IBM 1410 and transported itself on the tape trailer lablel. Played the Star Spangled Banner using printers and tape drives when triggered.

 

[aperry]

Careful, Simon... You're showing your age...

(signed by someone who has been working with computers for 24 years)

 

[marko]

Hey, dvd.servu4me.com is my machine!!! haha (127.0.0.1)

 

[SimpleSimon]

ROFL

Actually, I've been making a living with them for 30. Been programming for 35.

You're a bit too young to have worked with the 1410, as am I - but I did run a 360/40 running 1410 emulation.

So just for some fun in this dead thread, another computer first: Why & where did the term "bug" originate, by whom, and what language did that person originate?

 

[GaryPen]

ROFL

Why & where did the term "bug" originate, by whom, and what language did that person originate?

1. Inside the Bedrock 2000, the first known computer, a 12 inch prehistoric beetle ate the small monkey that operated the abacus.
2. Fred Flintstone
3. Yabadabadoo++

 

[SimpleSimon]

ROFLMAO

Good answer! Not the right one, but good answer.

 

[Mark_AR]

In 1945

Howard Aikin and Grace Hopper built the Mark I computer at Harvard University in which a moth had found its way into one of the relays. REmoving the moth 'de-bugged' the relay.

Grace hopper wrote the COBOL language.

Mark I was programmed in Binary using punched paper tape.

01001001 01010010 01001111 01000011 01001011 00100001

I used to program in binary and hex before there was Assembly Language Programming.

I think I still have my old Texas Instruements TTL data book. Seems like a different lifetime. *sigh*

 

[SimpleSimon]

Right on! Except the 'bug' was in 1951. Wish I had a prize for ya.

Lessee, 49 52 4F 43 4B 21. That's ASCII, not EBCDIC. IROCK! (too)

I learned BAL before doing any binary, but did some of that, too.

Yes, it was a different lifetime - and I still have my TI-TTL, too! Yellow cover?

 

[Neutron]

Just like on the other website why the heck is this in the DISH network forum??

 

[SimpleSimon]

Just like on the other website why the heck is this in the DISH network forum??

You're right - the thread starter shouldn't've put it here in the first place, and I hijacked it for a little fun.

No problem from me if a moderator wants to move, close, or delete it.

 

[Mark_AR]

Kill the thread!



Yep yellow cover.

 

[dfergie]

I went pc 5 years ago , commodore basic

 

[Mark_AR]

Hmmm My computer history.

Trash 80
Hazeltine 1000 terminal - Leaning ASM
Apple II
Commodore 4032
Commodore 8032
Commodore Vic 20
Commodore 64 - Owned 7 at one time
286-16mhz
486 DX33
P-133
PII-733
P4 1.8ghz desktop & Celeron 600 Mhz laptop *current*

 

[SimpleSimon]

Gosh. I doubt I can remember them all.
CDC 6000
DEC PDP-8, PDP-11
DG Nova
IBM 360 -20, -30, -40, -50, -65
IBM 370 -125, -135, -145, -158, -168
Amdahl 470 V5 thru V8, 580
Intel 8080, 8086 (beta tester)
Homebrew S-100
AIM 65
Apple Lisa, Mac
IBM PC, XT, AT, PS/2
Compaq DeskPro 286, 386, Portable II, Portable III
uncountable generic PCs working up to my current farm:
Pentium 866MHz laptop
AMD K6-2 450MHz (router and such)
AMD Athlon 950
AMD Athlon 1800+
3-4 others of various decent speeds lying around - wanna buy any?

 

[LER]

Sheesh. I thought I was old....

I've been in the industry for 25+ years, and have worked on:

DEC PDP-8/L
DG Nova
DG Eclipse
IBM/370-390 under MVS, VM, and some VSE
IBM System 3
Amiga
Commodore 128
Probably others I've forgotten.
Various IBM-PC processors, ranging from 486's to my current crop of P-4's.

This thread brought back memories, however, we probably should move it to
the chit-chat area.

LER

 

[LER]

This thread brought back memories, however, we probably should move it to
the chit-chat area

Which I've now done.

 

[SimpleSimon]

Re: move - no sooner done than said