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Originally Posted by goneil2024
AI - It’s early, and we have a long way to go with AI.
DIGITAL - When I lived in MA, I had a very close personal friend that was in product development/sales at Digital, about 1989-1990. At the time my IBM PC-XT from 1985 was running an Intel 8088 CPU, and my friend gave me a sneak preview of a new DEC laptop
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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy
I have very similar experiences, living in MA, starting using a DEC mainframe PDP 8i in 1972, Dartmouth Basic timesharing in 1978, MAC in 1982 with Multiplan,
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No offense intended guys, but as with the discussion of AI, you're late adopters.
In 1967, by special arrangement with the USAF at Hanscom Field, we had a computer terminal at my high school, tied into a mainframe at the base. One Science teacher and myself, had it to ourselves, to play with. Writing a program to play Black Jack was about the pinnacle of our early computer career.
I graduated to an Atari 400 in 1979 and a MAC when they were introduced in
1984. 128K, 400K disk for data, system (3.8) & MacWrite & MacPaint. The first Mac with a Hard Drive, was the Mac XL in '85. No color until '87. VisiCalc was the available Spreadsheet software & DB Master was the Database of choice.
AI is far more advanced, than what you see with ChatGPT or most readily available sites. It's not in its infancy, it's all grown up and ready for prime time. When it gets to a point where it's discussed on a Senior Citizen's social media site, it's a mature technology that's about to be replace with the newest and the greatest.
BTW, the original DEC "laptop" wasn't anything like a "laptop". It came in a huge "suitcase". About the only people who actually bought one, were employees. They had an "employee purchasing program" and if I can remember correctly, they were $1800. Our favorite hangout bar/club was across the street from the Digital "Mill Building" in Maynard Center. The club held about 125 people. in the 80's, at least 110 of those people were DEC employees. As an aside to the DEC stories, Ken Olsen who started DEC, had a brother Stan. Stan (who wasn't the sharpest tack in the draw) developed Black Diamond Ranch in Lecanto, FL (about 1.5 hours from TV). There are 2 18 hole courses there, Ranch & Quarry. The Quarry course is spectacular, the Ranch is merely great. I bought in TV, when the Seller of a home I had under agreement at Black Diamond, started to be a pain.