Cyberwar
We were forced to buy a bloody zip drive for uni CAD coursework - damn expensive for a skint student!
I used it for that course only. None of the other comupter labs had machines with zip drives - including the CFD workstations and I've never ever seen a zip drive since.
Gahh! zip drives!!
I used it for that course only. None of the other comupter labs had machines with zip drives - including the CFD workstations and I've never ever seen a zip drive since.
Gahh! zip drives!!
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
We were forced to buy a bloody zip drive for uni CAD coursework - damn expensive for a skint student!
I used it for that course only. None of the other comupter labs had machines with zip drives - including the CFD workstations and I've never ever seen a zip drive since.
Gahh! zip drives!!
I used it for that course only. None of the other comupter labs had machines with zip drives - including the CFD workstations and I've never ever seen a zip drive since.
Gahh! zip drives!!
Remember tape streamers then, not the big commercial ones today, but pre-internet? Had an Iomega, you had to ring up to get a password to baccess their bulletin board - how quaint.
Yes, I suppose zip drives were more secure due to the fact very few people had a way of interfacing with them!
Probably the oldest kit I've knowingly used is a single VAX machine based in Farnborough that held a lot of Fortran stress programs, and served everyone in stress at AUK. Still in use - too difficult/expensive to transfer them all in to something modern. Fortran programmers are getting a bit thin on the ground!
Probably the oldest kit I've knowingly used is a single VAX machine based in Farnborough that held a lot of Fortran stress programs, and served everyone in stress at AUK. Still in use - too difficult/expensive to transfer them all in to something modern. Fortran programmers are getting a bit thin on the ground!
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This link to a live cyber attack world map might be of interest.
Norse Attack Map
I was quite shocked at the extent of this cyberwar the first time I saw it!
Norse Attack Map
I was quite shocked at the extent of this cyberwar the first time I saw it!
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Unmanned droid, FORTRAN, what luxury!! The first Computer System that I was trained on was a small scientific computer (IBM1130 System) which had no diagnostics!! You had to write your own software in "Machine Language" & enter it in Hexadecimal. I still have some of my sub routines to test out devices.
I actually did part of the IBM1130 course during my month long Pre-Release training while being paid by the RAF & IBM.
I actually did part of the IBM1130 course during my month long Pre-Release training while being paid by the RAF & IBM.
