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Old 25-01-2018, 18:16   #61
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Did my first computer course in '67 - we used Machine Code and storage was on paper tape or a Magnetic Drum (about the size of a galvanised dustbin). The system had 3 computers running in parallel, one in control, one running test programmes and the third was standby for either of the other two - I have had a deep and sincere hatred of computers ever since.
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Old 25-01-2018, 23:31   #62
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So if they are doing their job controlling the machines why change.
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Because the hardware is no longer available to repair the old junk
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Old 26-01-2018, 13:15   #63
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I couldn't imagine using a DOS box now for my everyday computing. I've 3 monitors, 2 landscape and one portrait. I've 2 browsers open and shed loads of tabs. Spotify, WhatsApp, a programming tool, sniping tool and some other stuff.

DOS belongs in the past but we actually have 5 DOS computers at work controlling production equipment and they were only installed new on new equipment about 2007
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Old 26-01-2018, 15:13   #64
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I'm not posting a picture of mine, someone would only ask why I need 15 radios
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Old 26-01-2018, 15:54   #65
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Old 26-01-2018, 16:32   #66
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You might as well post a pic now - and then tell us why
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Old 26-01-2018, 16:55   #67
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Did my first computer course in '67 - we used Machine Code and storage was on paper tape or a Magnetic Drum (about the size of a galvanised dustbin). The system had 3 computers running in parallel, one in control, one running test programmes and the third was standby for either of the other two - I have had a deep and sincere hatred of computers ever since.
That reminds of when I started out as an apprentice enginner in 1955. We did a lot of work in the cotton industry and some looms were programmed to make patterned cloth with big tapes with holes in to control the different coloured shuttles. It's too far back to remember every detail but I seem to remember the make was Dobby.
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Russell was it not Jacquard?
I worked in the weaving shed of David Whiteheads in Rawtenstall....and what you describe are the jacquard patterns.
Twills and dobbys were very plain.
I worked at Moscow Mill too...this was mainly twills and dobbys and they were Lancashire looms...I had been used to Northrop automatics and this was a big shock to my system.
You could start on Lancashire looms and then transition to automatics, but doing it the other way around was (well, for me) very hard.
This was before I qualified as a nurse...in the mid sixties.
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Old 26-01-2018, 19:35   #69
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You might be right Margaret. Jacquard does ring a bell.
Jeremiah Jackson where I worked were general textile engineers and we made machines for the textile industry as well as going out to factories to repair or refurbish machinery.
I do vividly remember the big card with holes to make the pattern and a tackler changing them every so often.
Later looms used air or even water to blow the weft across and did away with shuttles.
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I thought also it was Jacquard, but my memorys rubbish so kept me gob shut, sure they had some of those at Enfield Mill when i worked yon in late 60s. for you young uns the mill is now Ossy Mills / Bubble factory.
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Old 26-01-2018, 20:23   #71
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I worked on a shuttle-less loom, it was called a sulzer machine...and used a rapier to draw the thread across the warp.

I was seconded to the research and development unit...I really enjoyed this work...then the place shut up shop and moved lock stock and barrel to South Africa...that was when I got a job at Moscow mill...no it was Enfield Mill not Moscow Mill.
They made the table cloths and table napkins for Buckingham Palace, but only the best weavers were allowed to work on these orders...and I definitely was not one of those.
I hated the Lancashire looms.
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Old 27-01-2018, 00:05   #72
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Flamin Eck no wonder tha calls thi sen restless, who makes thi jam butties, is id a robot, tha should ev a matress on floor under thi desk, then tha con play with them pedals as tha falls asleep. Ha Ha He
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That reminds of when I started out as an apprentice enginner in 1955. We did a lot of work in the cotton industry and some looms were programmed to make patterned cloth with big tapes with holes in to control the different coloured shuttles. It's too far back to remember every detail but I seem to remember the make was Dobby.
I started my apprenticeship in Jan '56 at Prestige, Burnley. I remember that Sales/Finance had a "computer" of sorts that used individual punched paper cards about the size of a postcard - Hollerith was the manufacturer. If they had a problem they had to call in the company technicians, none of the electrical dept. ever worked on it.
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