computers have become.
Wow, I was completely happy with my old PC and how it worked. However, this new PC is awesome. Opening large drawing files or GIS files is pretty much instantaneous.
All of my job files are in a GIS with aerial imagery, quadsheets, benchmarks, etc... all in that GIS project file. I used to open another window and perform other tasks while waiting for everything to load. Now I do not have time to as all the data is there so within a minute.
I would say I won't fall into that complacency again, but I probably will.
Remember the first 286 I had without a math co prosier. While using a stand alone topo program and bringing in the points as shot, you could watch each shot appear on the screen, probably about 3 per second. Still faster than the cogo program ran on an IBM 1130 that I had used in the past, key punch, no screen but we finally obtained a drum plotter, the diagonal lines were stair stepped.
jud
Are You Sure It Is Not You Just Getting Slower ?
Speed is a relative attribute.
Paul in PA
i used to get the hand me downs
i remember the old TRS-80 model 4p i used
p stands for portable
it was the size of the GPS case
it had a full keyboard and 10" +/- screen
and not one but two 5-1/4" floppy drives.
A Trash 80 Was The Second Design Computer I Used
I started out with a KayPro II CPM machine, dual floppies.
It was a lot faster than I was.
Paul in PA
A Trash 80 Was The Second Design Computer I Used
I think my boss had a KAYPRO portable about the size of a small suitcase.
The keyboard was the top of the case and clamped nto place when transporting.
mid 1980's
Does a HP9815 count?
It was a sweet machine..could hold 50 coordinate pairs on ONE mini-tape...and combined with a ledger size dot matrix printer...you could plot a bunch of little 'x' IN THE RIGHT PLACE and trace over on vellum...
DDSM 😉
In 1968, I had a Olivetti 101 and thought I had the real deal. It was a computer at least, not just an electronic addiing machine.
Course, I started off with a Monroe 8 place hand crank calculator, so was easily impressed.
Keith
I had to deal with a large Autocad file once that took 4 hours to regen in the 8 MHz XT that we had. It took 15 minutes for it to snap to a point. One day, I left for lunch, and the bosses son used the quit command to free up the computer so he could play games at lunch. I was on overtime before the drawing was loaded again. I ground a job with my current employer the next week.
About 20 years ago, I was working on a large static GPS project. My field computer was a Compaq 386 transportable with a math cp-processor. My procedure was to get all 4 units lined up next to the desk in my motel room, get a beer and download the receivers with the first beer. Then I set up the processing in GPPS, and got my second beer, and did the observation schedule for the next day.. Then we would go out to eat, and when I got back, the data was processed. I did my QA/QC checks and went to bed. The powers that be decided to get new computers, and I got a 486-66 lap top. It would finish the processing before I could get a beer, and get over to the spare bed to look at the maps that made GPS projects a lot less fun.
The Olivetti Programma 101 was the first one that I ever used. Just watch the red light blink until it turned solid blue when calculation was finished and the tape printed out the data. Used the old Frieden and Marschants prior to 1969. I remember if you had a Red Book, a Monroe handcrank, you were really uptown. When I worked for the USBR in 1960-1966 we got a Curta. I was the only one that got to use it, as no one else could figure it out or knew what to do with it. Prior to the Curta, it was a book of log tables to run my calc's.
Does a HP9815 count?
> It was a sweet machine..could hold 50 coordinate pairs on ONE mini-tape...and combined with a ledger size dot matrix printer...you could plot a bunch of little 'x' IN THE RIGHT PLACE and trace over on vellum...
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> HP 9815
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> DDSM 😉
the 9815S would hold 100 coordinate pairs.
B-)
> In 1968, I had a Olivetti 101 and thought I had the real deal. It was a computer at least, not just an electronic addiing machine.
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> Course, I started off with a Monroe 8 place hand crank calculator, so was easily impressed.
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> Keith
in 1976 I was using an Olivetti P652. It used Mag Cards the size of punch cards for programs and data storage.
B-)
We used a Wang too!
Yep, entered the data on a text only screen; then plotted it on a piece of paper held down on a big table, with magnets. The plotter was a bic, ball point pen with a screwdriver taped to it for weight. The pen rode in a bracket that rode along an arm and the arm moved up and down a table.
Created a work sheet from that and placed a mylar or cepia over it for final draft.
Pretty slick.....:snarky:
My Olivetti used cards too that were about 3" wide and 10" long or so. The computer only had 120 steps of programming and took up a lot of that on getting sines and cosines.
Are You Sure It Is Not You Just Getting Slower ?
😉 That could be the case!