[Rhodes22-list] Missing link My Hot Key

[Michael D. Weisner]

Actually the 407 was a known as a TAB machine in the sense that it could
"tabulate".  It was a fairly large mechanical device.  It was the first
"computer" that I ever "programmed" way back in '68!  In those days,
programming was accomplished by inserting small jumper wires that connected
the output of one register to the input of another.  Reprogramming was a
bitch - you had to pull out all of the jumpers before creating the new
program.

The 407 had a few registers and 4 basic cycles if I remember correctly.  It
read punched cards and included a printing ability.  Mostly it was used to
create listings of account info created by adding up card inputs.  My
greatest feat on a 407 was to make it capable of playing Tic-Tac-Toe one
afternoon.  It must have been a slow day...

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Lipton" <rlipton at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Missing link My Hot Key


> Google says the 407 was an accounting machine - not a computer.  Google
> sees all knows all...
>
> Ron
>
> On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Bill Effros wrote:
>
> > IBM 407
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> > Ronald Lipton wrote:
> >> OK, my first machine was an IBM 1401 - http://www.columbia.edu/
> >> acis/history/1401.html
> >> anybody beat that?
> >>
> >> Ron
> >>
> >> On Aug 16, 2006, at 7:45 PM, johnp wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I'm a bit slow and hunched over but I do know what a link is.
> >>> Short for
> >>> hyperlink a link leading to an http (hypertext transfer protocol)
> >>> page .
> >>> I've been on PCs since DOS 6.0
> >>> That slightly different color is usually bLoo. Microsoft is the most
> >>> unstable operating system there is. If you want stable try a Unix
> >>> based
> >>> system. Linux etc. That's what most of the servers use that carry
> >>> all our
> >>> email and host all our sites - pages - blogs and forums. Speaking
> >>> of forums,
> >>> try this hotlink it's a little easier to aim you're comments to
> >>> the right
> >>> party. I only stumbled across this, considering I have no
> >>> interest in a
> >>> tiller cover and don't have an hour a day to read a long text mail.
> >>> http://www.nabble.com/Rhodes22-f14229.html
> >>> http://www.nabble.com/Rhodes22-f14229.html  I've got to go to take a
> >>> sematical and ask that wiki island guy, jeeves or sumtn, what a
> >>> hot key is
> >>> now. Still looking for the any key though.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Tootle wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> John,
> >>>>      You may be technically correct.  You may be sematically
> >>>> correct.
> >>>> However, I have been on computers since 4k modems and I have
> >>>> been calling
> >>>> it a hot key since before windows 95 ( was that microsoft
> >>>> 32 ?).  Ugh.
> >>>>       We have discussed and referred to widipedia recently and
> >>>> in the
> >>>> past.  It is a relative newbie.  Just press the link and be
> >>>> happy.  Find
> >>>> out how to search the archives.  And, there are other ways to
> >>>> search, you
> >>>> just may be more expert so if you know you can tell.
> >>>>
> >>>> Ed K
> >>>> Greenville, SC, USA
> >>>> Addendum:  Microsoft is marketing the iLoo, an Internet-capable
> >>>> portable
> >>>> toilet.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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