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Steve
Good point. I was 'stealing' mainframe time in 1963 in Detroit. Like you,
started on a homemade Northstar Horizon running CP/M way before there was an
IBM PC or an Apple computer. Heck, I had two or three years in before they
came out with the first hard drive. I seem to remember a large 5.25" hard
drive that contained 5MB and cost me $1,200 or so, and that was in 1960
dollars. Now that I think about it, when we started there were only single
sided, single density diskettes that held 140k (I think?). A big system
contained 4 meg of memory and 2 of those SSSD floppies.
I was playing with a MITS IMSAI before that, but I don't count it. Never
did anything productive on it. Even my dad was working with PCs before
Louis Mendelsohn. Maybe, we should all get together and set up an old
fa*t's web page to toot our collective horns. That's assuming we can still
find them <G>.
Regards
Guy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Steve Karnish
> Sent: Saturday, August 29, 1998 4:36 PM
> To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: message interruptus
>
>
> Frans,
>
> Thanks for your offer. Sounds like Kramer is doing something
> similar. Just goes to show...nothing's new. You can only
> massage these numbers so many ways. Perry Kaufman was pretty
> interested in what I was doing in the late seventies and it was
> this exact same thing that is posted on the list today: "moving
> average momentum oscillators" or what I like to cal MAMO's.
>
> This reminds me of a phone solicitation I got about a month ago:
> Someone from Louis Mendelsohn's office (ProfitTaker) called and
> kept insisting that Louie was the "Father of System Testing"
> (the absolute first person in the country to develop systems on
> a computer). After letting him go on for a while with his
> "pitch", I informed him that I started "stealing" time from an
> Ann Arbor computer firm 1975: building and simulating systems.
> He then backed up and said, "Well, what I meant to say was that
> Mr. Mendelshon was the person in the country to build systems on
> a "personal computer" in 1979". That's when I informed him of
> my MAMO work programmed into a 4k TRS - 80 Model I. I don't
> know what my point is. Mendelsohn can afford to take out full
> page ads and I still have to get up a 5am to answer the phone
> and make trades. Those that can trade, those that can't sell
> "shitty" systems to the unsuspecting public. Thanks for your
> concern and if you do get the motivation to identify the
> article, scan and send it or I will give you my snail mail
> address. My TASC only go back three years.
> Thanks again,
>
> Steve Karnish
> CCT
>
> ----------
> > From: derksenf <derksenf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: message interruptus
> > Date: Saturday, August 29, 1998 1:11 PM
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > This reminds me of an article in TASAC April or May '94 by
> Bruce Kramer.
> > He combines a moving average oscillator with moving average
> momentum and
> > stochastics oscillator and (unsmoothed stocastics) Williams %R
> and ADX into
> > a consistent "all weather" system, with which I played for a
> while but left
> > the idea for some reason. If you're interested and don't have
> access to that
> > TASAC article, just yell and I'll dive into some closets in
> the garage or in
> > the attic.
> >
> > Frans
> >
> > At 08:55 28-08-98 -0700, you wrote:
> > >I've sent the following message twice...once last night and
> once
> > >about three hours ago. It's not showing up so far. If all
> > >three of these messages show up on the list, please accept my
> > >apology for the clutter.
> > >
> > >"My first attempt at developing a computer system was with a
> > >TRS-80. I had someone program the logic and I haven't
> "learnt
> > >nothin' yet/since". My objective is to turn this little
> "moving
> > >average oscillator" into a system test. I would like to
> reverse
> > >my position when the oscillator reverses it's direction.
> Here's
> > >the formula:
> > >
> > >Mov(C,opt1,S)-Ref(Mov(C,opt1,S),-opt2)
> > >
> > >I'm sure it's simple. I'll trade out optimized results for
> some
> > >help.
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > >Steve Karnish
> > >CCT"
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
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