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I'll never forget the Sumlock Compucorp around 1975/6. I did more
Statistical Thermo calculations on it than you can shake a stick at.
We were researching into Genetic Algorithms for Brent/Ti trading some years
ago when a386/25 with co-processor was state of the art. That took 3 days
flat out to learn its history. We transferred the computations to an IBM
RS6000 - that was like lightning by comparison. Oh happy days when one did
one's own hacking - sorry coding and one was not worried about
manufacturers bug fixes and unreliability of real time feeds!
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Happy trading also.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Suesserott" <MikeSuesserott@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Metastock List" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:14 PM
Subject: OT: Computer Nostalgia
> Hello...
>
> on a quiet day like today it may be fitting to remember the first personal
> computers some of us used. I was reminded of mine yesterday when I hit
upon
> www.hpmuseum.org, featuring the HP-65, the first hand-held programmable
> calculator, which I remember I bought around 1976. It could store 9
numbers
> in as many registers, and 100 lines of simple "code" which had to be
stored
> on small magnetic cards.
>
> A few years later, after a brief encounter with a Commodore PET (quite
> unreliable), I bought my beloved HP-85, a desktop computer boasting 32K of
> memory, magnetic cartridges as storage media, and HP BASIC as the built-in
> language... After that came HP's "Integral-PC", the first portable UNIX PC
> with a plasma display and a built-in printer. Somehow it never really made
> it on the sales front, but I loved it! I still have one at home, a
nostalgic
> item to be shown to friends and dusted faithfully.
>
> Strange to say, I have no similarly fond memories of the many PCs that
have
> followed through the years, though these were, of course, many times more
> powerful. One reason may lie in the fact that Hewlett-Packard, in those
> days, was a company fanatically dedicated to near-perfect quality, and it
> showed! It actually made a person delay a new purchase of equipment
because
> the old HP machine just wouldn't die...
>
> My apologies for this off-topic post. Won't let it happen again.
>
> Good trading to all,
>
> Michael Suesserott
>
>
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