I love those old advertising brocures. They made those machines sound like they were capable of harnessing the raw power of the gods. You should read the ad/manual that Interdata made for the 8/32 "Megamini", or the ad/manuals Texas Instruments made for the 9900 computers. Reading them was like an adventure. By the time you got to the end, you were sold that this was the machine for you. The reality was somewhat different...
-Chuck
You jiggled my memory... it WAS the 7090 I used... wasn't it the FIRST transistorized IBM machine?
...Jim Thompson
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| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Thanks! I found it. I had it pushed all the way to the right and couldn't see anything happening when I selected view it or not.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
Goto: Tools/folder options/View/ find the radio button for display full path in adress bar make sure it's selected.
Goto: View/toolbars/ make sure Adress bar is checked
You can now find a file in afolder and select it's full path from the adress bar
Not perfect for files but a path this will work for, if you need the file name also this won't show it.
Charles
The "ClipPath" utility works perfectly and doesn't seem to conflict with other programs... puts whole path AND filename onto clipboard.
...Jim Thompson
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| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |
I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
You mean you had the left (tree) pane all widened to see those pesky nine-deep unix paths? ;-)
Glad you found an answer! And didn't have to spend any money! :-)
Cheers! Rich
I once heard a UL that at one of those warehouse-sized tube-type computers, they had three fulltime kids on roller skates, whose only job was to replace burned-out tubes.
Cheers! Rich
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Yeah, I think that was a Urban Legend. The original tube modules that were designed by Eckert and Mauchly had less than optimum MTBFs, and they calculated that if they built the computer using these, they would have more down time for tube replacement than they would have uptime. So they redesigned the modules to run more conservatively and got the reliability up to the point where the usual was to run the computer during the daytime and do diagnostics and maintenance on it at night. And it wasn't all that bad, the tubes didn't need replacing very often.
Much of this info I got from Stan Auqarten's excellent "Bit By Bit" book on the history of computers.
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I checked Augarten's "Bit by Bit" and he says that for ENIAC, fifty tubes failed in the first month, and fifteen failed in the fifth month. For a machine with 17,468 tubes (and appx 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, 1,500 relays, and 6,000 manual switches), that wasn't bad at all. :-)
Of course, everyone knows about the very first computer bug:
Cheers! Rich
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