[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[Roy Vestal]

Isn't that what a UPS fixes?  :D

J.C. Jones wrote:
> Roy,
> 
> I wonder how many times the station went dead because of a BSOD?
> 
> jcj
> 
> Roy Vestal wrote:
> 
>> Heh, in the early 90's, I was a "board op" on the weekends at a local 
>> AM station. The owner's brother him setup a 386 based PC running 
>> *cough* Windows *cough* and a broadcast "suite" for automating the 
>> boards. I helped him setup the communications (at a whopping 2400 
>> baud) so he could connect from home and run the station.
>>
>> Within a month I lost my job. :(
>>
>> Stinking automation!  ;)
>>
>> J.C. Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> At least you have had the opportunity to get an "education" in 
>>> computers. What I have learned has been through necessity and I don't 
>>> do a very good job of learning.
>>>
>>> The world of broadcast automation has changed drastically since I was 
>>> first exposed to it in the sixties.
>>>
>>> I need to visit one of the local radio stations and see how they are 
>>> using automation, pc's, etc today. I am sure that it is nothing like 
>>> my days of radio and television.
>>>
>>> jcj
>>>
>>> Jim Ray wrote:
>>>
>>>>> I was born in 1936 ( makes this an ancient guy story )
>>>>>
>>>>> My first "personal" computer was the TI-99-4A. I could only afford the
>>>>> unit, no disk drives of any sort. I make me a "cassette drive" using a
>>>>> portable cassette recorder and wired up my own connecting cable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Only programming language was a form of basic. Even a short program
>>>>> would take over 30 minutes to load from cassette to "pc". I usually
>>>>> loaded the program while I was eating supper. When I finished with my
>>>>> meal, my computer would be waiting for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of my first computers that I use in my work was a 
>>>>> mini-computer, 12
>>>>> bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was
>>>>> part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the
>>>>> manufacturer's name for the computer.
>>>>>
>>>>> jcj
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [Jim Ray pontificates] you've got me beat by a quarter century :-)  
>>>> no one
>>>> can say they've got more experience than the folks that have seen the
>>>> industry grow up around us.  thank god/allah/[insert diety of the 
>>>> day] we
>>>> woke up today.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>
>>
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