OH My Goodness what happen to the forum?

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wantathinkpad · #1 Post by **wantathinkpad** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 10:02 am

Hey, It's been so long since I have been on the forum. Primary reason, I am in college. Secondly my T43 has been working fine. What else is new besides all these images and icons pup top. And those birds up in the corner. Are they Bill's?

#2 Post by **jdhurst** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:09 am

The ads are to assist supporting this forum financially. The Owner (Bill M.) put them there and the admins and moderators offered their full support (and a couple even assisted with the coding).

The birds are us

Welcome back. ... JDH

tockki · #3 Post by **tockki** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:49 pm

I think everything is cool BUT do we have to googlize the title on top of the forum? Although I am a google user and nothing against them BUT I am a bit apprehensive about Google trying to incorporate everything about them in every part of our lives... - (just a philosophical rhetoric nothing more and nothing less.) Kudos to this excellent forum!!!

tockki · #4 Post by **tockki** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:55 pm

But then again as I read some other posts there are those that do like em... Hopefully it'll only be here for a little while... (fingers-crossed)

Charles Mann · #5 Post by **Charles Mann** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:18 am

Signed on this morning and there was Charlie Chaplin…with a Thinkpad no less.

I remember a PC program that had Charlie performing an ice skating routine that was a Christmas Greeting….Boy does that date me.

Charles

#6 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:40 am

If you are going back that far in the folk lore, some of us here (me at least) had the venerable IBM 5150 PC (IBM PC 1) when Charlie appeared. Most don't know that there was an IBM 5100 before that. It was a computer, but not common, did not look like a PC, and predated the 5150 by a few years. ... JDH

pianowizard · #7 Post by **pianowizard** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:04 am

jdhurst wrote:Most don't know that there was an IBM 5100 before that.

The IBM 5100. 55 lbs! I once traveled with a rollable suitcase of the exact same weight, and it wasn't easy!

#8 Post by **ryengineer** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:50 am

That's even heavier than my dog.

#9 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:48 am

Think of servicing those things.

A portable oscilloscope (Tek 455 / 465 / 475) runs 30 pounds with probes to lug around.

A lab scope (Tek 7704 or maybe a 7104) runs 50 pounds on a bench.

That stuff was heavy back then with discrete transistors, limited integrated circuitry, transformer as well as switching power supplies, built to last. ... JDH

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