Richard Syrett

[GravitySucks]

Yeah and it can really play havoc with verb tenses.

I think, therefore, I am was will be.

[zeebo]

I think, therefore, I am was will be.

In the future you were.

[Dr. MD MD]

I was, am and will be there. 

[Dr. MD MD]

No one listening to Syrett tonight?

[GravitySucks]

No one listening to Syrett tonight?

Have it on but haven't been paying attention.

[Dr. MD MD]

Have it on but haven't been paying attention.

It's OK but why do these guys websites always look like they're circa 1995?!   

https://nomoregames.net/

[GravitySucks]

It's OK but why do these guys websites always look like they're circa 1995?!   

https://nomoregames.net/

He's a Professor, and probably older than dirt. He was on the internet back when only people with IQs over 165 knew how to use it.

😎

[Dr. MD MD]

He's a Professor, and probably older than dirt. He was on the internet back when only people with IQs over 165 knew how to use it.

😎

Mine's not that high but I was on the internet before there was the WWW. I was in university and we could log onto their servers with our 2800 baud modems. 

[albrecht]

It's OK but why do these guys websites always look like they're circa 1995?!   

https://nomoregames.net/

There also is still standing contract that a guest must use hotdog and a geocities account. 

[GravitySucks]

Mine's not that high but I was on the internet before there was the WWW. I was in university and we could log onto their servers with our 2800 baud modems. 

I started with a 300 baud acoustic modem.

[Dr. MD MD]

I started with a 300 baud acoustic modem.

The kind you couple with a rotary phone? 

Actually, I think my first modem was 2400 not 2800.

[GravitySucks]

The kind you couple with a rotary phone? 

Actually, I think my first modem was 2400 not 2800.

I had a touch tone phone, but it was the kind you put the handset in the cups. Only had a dumb terminal. Not a computer per se. I think it was a VT-100 but it was back around 1981, so I may have the model wrong.

[Dr. MD MD]

I had a touch tone phone, but it was the kind you put the handset in the cups. Only had a dumb terminal. Not a computer per se. I think it was a VT-100 but it was back around 1981, so I may have the model wrong.

Old school

You were probably phone phreaking with Captain Crunch too. 

I avoided computers in the 80s but had to submit in the 90s. I regret not getting into them sooner but for most of the 80s computers still seemed accessible only to math geeks and such. It was probably that I didn't start getting friends who were really into them until I went to university and then almost everyone had them.

[GravitySucks]

Old school

You were probably phone phreaking with Captain Crunch too. 

I avoided computers in the 80s but had to submit in the 90s. I regret not getting into them sooner but for most of the 80s computers still seemed accessible only to math geeks and such. It was probably that I didn't start getting friends who were really into them until I went to university and then almost everyone had them.

I crosstrained into programming in 79 and got my degree in CS at night while I was in the Air Force. I was married to a computer from that point on.

My first PC at home was an AT&T 6300 with an 8086 processor, 640k ram, 20mb hard drive, and a color monitor. It cost $3200. I think the internal modem was 9600 baud. A second, 20mb external hard drive cost me $970. It took quite a bit of time and hoops to get DOS to recognize more than 32mb of hard disk space. To this day, I have no idea how I got it to work. This was pre-Windows.

[Dr. MD MD]

I crosstrained into programming in 79 and got my degree in CS at night while I was in the Air Force. I was married to a computer from that point on.

My first PC at home was an AT&T 6300 with an 8086 processor, 640k ram, 20mb hard drive, and a color monitor. It cost $3200. I think the internal modem was 9600 baud. A second, 20mb external hard drive cost me $970. It took quite a bit of time and hoops to get DOS to recognize more than 32mb of hard disk space. To this day, I have no idea how I got it to work. This was pre-Windows.

I don't remember all the specs of my first system but it was a 286 (I think 20Mhz) and the 2400 baud external modem. I can't remember if I had windows on it or not. I think 3.1 was the first version I tried to run and by then I had upgraded to a 386 33Mhz machine. Windows was a horrible pig back then that ultimately motivated me toward Macintosh a few years later.

[GravitySucks]

I don't remember all the specs of my first system but it was a 286 (I think 20Mhz) and the 2400 baud external modem. I can't remember if I had windows on it or not. I think 3.1 was the first version I tried to run and by then I had upgraded to a 386 33Mhz machine. Windows was a horrible pig back then that ultimately motivated me toward Macintosh a few years later.

Now that I think about it, I don't remember it having an internal modem. I don't think I had an internal modem until about 1992 or 3 when I got my 486dx.

I didn't use my AT&T 6300 to get online. I was doing program development and would just carry floppy disks ( 5 1/4) back and forth (SneakerNet).

I developed some kickass software on that system. Mostly in pascal and c. Turbo Pascal was a powerful compiler for those early machines running DOS.

[Dr. MD MD]

Syrett's really into the soul music tonight. 

[zeebo]

No one listening to Syrett tonight?

I skipped the first guest, but gonna check out the segment on TTT (Titor-less Time Travel).

[GravitySucks]

I skipped the first guest, but gonna check out the segment on TTT (Titor-less Time Travel).

Inserting ibuprofen as we speak.

[GravitySucks]

I think the only multiplayer game I have ever played on a computer was called Maze Wars. We played it on our work MacIntoshes that were hooked up on an AppleTalk network. All black and white. 

Spent a lot of time with Flight Simulator on both the Mac and Dos/PC. And doom.

[zeebo]

...I developed some kickass software on that system. Mostly in pascal and c. Turbo Pascal was a powerful compiler for those early machines running DOS.

I loved Pascal!  That's what I learned on, such a sensible language.

[GravitySucks]

I loved Pascal!  That's what I learned on, such a sensible language.

I still say while Reagan was bankrupting the Soviet Union with StarWars, the Soviets were bankrupting the US by infiltrating universities and teaching C.

[GravitySucks]

I have developed in 4 different types of assembler, COBOL, Fortran, PL/I, Pascal, C, C++, Ada, and Prolog. I think Pascal was my favorite.

[Dr. MD MD]

Didn't we already know it was mathematically possible? 

Give me my damn time machine! 

[zeebo]

I still say while Reagan was bankrupting the Soviet Union with StarWars, the Soviets were bankrupting the US by infiltrating universities and teaching C.

Lol, those damn C pointers and their memory leaks.  Ugh, at least the time I spent learning that helped later learning Perl which is just as cryptic.   

[GravitySucks]

Didn't we already know it was mathematically possible? 

Give me my damn time machine! 

The different series within the Star Trek franchise would drive me crazy with the time travel episodes.

I wouldn't even watch the alternative universe episodes.

[zeebo]

Didn't we already know it was mathematically possible? 

I'm sort of confused by this as well.  I thought that was the big insight of his paper.  Sounds like it's rather a subtle corollary, which is that he's found a way to do it so it's a self-consistent system.  Pretty sure Bill & Ted's already did that though.

[(Sandman) Logan-5]

Hi guys.

http://bellgab.com/radio-and-podcasts/art-bell/msg1044022/#msg1044022  http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/time-travel-has-been-proven-mathematically-possible-we-just-need-exotic-matter-build-machine-1619754

[GravitySucks]

Lol, those damn C pointers and their memory leaks.  Ugh, at least the time I spent learning that helped later learning Perl which is just as cryptic.   

I did most of my pascal work on DOS with 640k of ram so everything was pointers and saving stuff off to disk and using overlays. I wrote a word processor interface into a relational database that mimicked wordstar but stored everything in a database instead of a text file. It was basically a browser before there was an Internet.  It was a commercial product for several years. All that was was pointers to pointers. I used to see pointers in my sleep.

[Dr. MD MD]

I have developed in 4 different types of assembler, COBOL, Fortran, PL/I, Pascal, C, C++, Ada, and Prolog. I think Pascal was my favorite.

That's what I missed out on. I was taught some BASIC in high school but by the time I got my own computer there was already lots of commercial software and all of the programmers I met were working in more advanced languages like C or straight up assembly. If I could go back in time I'd try harder to learn to program in the 80s.