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Having just completed the purchase of another company, I found the grand prize. Well, and the head high stack of flat files in the back storage room.?ÿ
Congratulations..................................................I think....................
Does it want... to play a game?
My first job after college was as a proposal writer for a defense contracting firm in Seattle and I got to use something quite similar
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lmao- literally the very words i uttered upon seeing it.
There are a handful of various dinosaurs like this back there too.
I??ll prolly keep the old leitz level, fleabay or pitch the rest.
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I still have my Kaypro 2. I used it for 5+ years at home for document writing and it had a quite effective spreadsheet. I was pleased with the CPM operating system and at 64Hz was faster than I could type. I worked at Bethlehem Steel at the time and used an IBM XT hooked up as a server to the multiple IBM 360's. While there I was trained in several construction management systems, and had access to their craft and trades worktime system. I began using a punchcard IBM program which I upgraded to direct queuing of my time management program requests from the XT. The data I required was only available right after the weekly payroll was run, because despite the mega drums they had for storage there was too much data to keep on line. those paper reports ran about 1.5" thick each and every week.
If I recall correctly that cost me $2,400 in real money. A few years later I spent about the same amount for an IBM clone 386 DX with a coprocessor to run AutoCAD 10. Later adding Carlson SurvCADD 10. I have not paid that much for any computer since.
My brother used his Kaypro 2 as a server on workframe sites. He wrote spreadsheets that he used for more than 15 years.
Paul in PA
I'd never seen a GTS-2. It probably won't sell for much on ebay, but the tribrach is worth something and maybe someone wants the power cable and a battery pack to be recelled. I have a GTS-2B that made good measurements until the EDM quit working.?ÿ Those models are from the time between transits and instruments that could give you horizontal distances - these only did slope distance.
We had a computer called a WANG...
I laughed every time I read the label!
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An Wang is known for a number of pithy aphorisms summing up principles based on his experience in business and life. Examples include:
"Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius."
"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."
OK, who's the marketing joker who developed that top slogan?
I can just picture him (has to be a guy) throwing it out there for fun in a brainstorming session, thinking "This will never get approved for a product called a 'Wang'".
Then the boss loves it and orders him to develop a full-page ad around it.
These companies really don't like to change up their colors much do they? Lol. Looks so close to the mustard yellow Topcon GT I had for a warranty loaner recently.?ÿ
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My bosses last company purchase got me an 11 year old Leica TPS1200+ robot. Not exactly a dinosaur yet but it will be eventually. At least it works better than the brand new Sokkia/Topcon robot.?ÿ
I can remember there being a WANG computer stuck in an empty classroom in the main engineering building on campus in 1974-75.?ÿ A couple of my buddies figured out how to make it do some simple things for them.?ÿ To me, it was like jumping from English to Mandarin or some other foreign language due to the different way of doing what had to be done.?ÿ I was too close to going out the door to a paying job to waste my valuable time on trying to use it.
BTW, we had a Professor Huang, which was pronounced wong.?ÿ Many guys said they were in the "wong" class or had the "wong" professor.?ÿ I had Professor Hu, which was pronounced who.?ÿ Many clever little sayings revolved around his name, also.?ÿ Then there was Dr. Annis, whose name I mispronounced the first time I met him to ask if he would allow me to take his class in Environmental Engineering which was principally for graduate students in Mechanical Engineering.
