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For You youngin's

Reply #15 –
Quote from: TurboCoupe50;170070
Well if you really want to go back, computers had tubes, were the size of a building and cost millions...

Inside the Univac1



There's some very smart people out there.  I'm still trying to figure out a simple relay.  Look at the wires in this thing!

TED

For You youngin's

Reply #16 –
Quote from: Cad-T-Bird 500;170072
There's some very smart people out there.  I'm still trying to figure out a simple relay.  Look at the wires in this thing!

TED
Looks like the dash in my car...
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

For You youngin's

Reply #17 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;170084
Looks like the dash in my car...
  Looks like the dash harness of 100 cars.
One 88

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Reply #18 –
...oh, and I forgot to post the page with the specs on that Trash-80:


...And look at those upgrade options. $1900 for an extrenal floppy drive (or $3k for two drives), a thousand bucks per 128k of RAM...
2015 Mustang GT Premium - 5.0, 6-speed, Guard Green - too much awesome for one car

1988 5.0 Thunderbird :birdsmily: SOLD SEPT 11 2010: TC front clip/hood ♣ Body & paint completed Oct 2007 ♣ 3.55 TC rear end and front brakes ♣ TC interior ♣ CHE rear control arms (adjustable lowers) ♣ 2001 Bullitt springs ♣ Energy suspension poly busings ♣ Kenne Brown subframe connectors ♣ CWE engine mounts ♣ Thundercat sequential turn signals ♣ Explorer overhead console (temp/compass display) ♣ 2.25" off-road dual exhaust ♣ T-5 transmission swap completed Jan 2009 ♣

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Reply #19 –
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Reply #20 –
Quote from: Cad-T-Bird 500;170072
There's some very smart people out there.  I'm still trying to figure out a simple relay.  Look at the wires in this thing!

TED


Inside the Univac1



Anybody can look smart holdin' a Simpson 260 meter...:hick:

For You youngin's

Reply #21 –
I remember a couple of years ago I tried to save some of my old 8088 games onto a 3 1/2" floppy by hooking up an old 5 1/4" to my 486. Loaded up pit fall....

Typed in run and that was followed by the game over screen....
Quote from: jcassity
I honestly dont think you could exceed the cost of a new car buy installing new *stock* parts everywhere in your coug our tbird. Its just plain impossible. You could revamp the entire drivetrain/engine/suspenstion and still come out ahead.
Hooligans! 
1988 Crown Vic wagon. 120K California car. Wifes grocery getter. (junked)
1987 Ford Thunderbird LX. 5.0. s.o., sn-95 t-5 and an f-150 clutch. Driven daily and going strong.
1986 cougar.
lilsammywasapunkrocker@yahoo.com

For You youngin's

Reply #22 –
When I worked for IBM in 1957 I was assigned to the Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland.
They were running two Univac I's at that time and one of them was Serial # 1


Quote from: TurboCoupe50;170070
nside the Univac1

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Reply #23 –
I learned MS-DOS when i was like 8 years old. I Never forgotten the commands. At the day its still very useful when i need to fix a PC....
I liked very much, even today when im learning java some things are similar....

 Do you want a good program for DOS ? try mpxplay, it plays mp3 songs. I used this like 3 weeks ago....

  Those Radioshack computers were pretty expensive (i remember when Carmen posted the entire catalog some months ago, pretty interesting)....how much does a Cougar/Bird cost at the same time ?
1985 Mercury Cougar V6
1989 F-200 V8
1996 Explorer V6
2001 F-150

For You youngin's

Reply #24 –
Oh , I forgot which wire was bad.......
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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Reply #25 –
Our Collet mill at work looks like this.  Maintanence man has wore a hole in his head from scratching it when trying to troubleshoot.  And the manual is in German, lol.
1987 TC