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No manuals anymore... and I hate that.
If you get any printed matter, it will probably have cartoons and no text. They've moved beyond poorly written to not written at all. But you can call a "help center" in Malaysia, if you have nothing better to do. That will get you something that sounds like the flamingo habitat at the Bronx Zoo.
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I have an Apple Macintosh SE with a Stylewriter II printer. It works as a stand alone, but is just for room decoration these days. Latest and greatest - in its day. That is ancient. Keep it working another few years and it can go on the auction block and bring in big bucks like an original working Apple with the wooden keyboard box did a short while back.
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I've got an old SE/30 and an Imagewriter; replaced the PRAM battery a few years back, still plays Oregon Trail....
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I don't know about the others, but if Kevin (BigKev), Howard (HH56), John (JWL) or I had a computer that was -> older than us, we would need a private hydroelectric plant to provide the necessary electricity. image source: lynet-engineering.no Attach file:  back to the future.jpg (129.94 KB)
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The story of ZIS-110, ZIS-115, ZIL-111 & Chaika GAZ-13 on www.guscha.de
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Other items not often mentioned besides the huge amount of electricity needed is the cooling for the thousand or so vacuum tubes and the noise generated by hundreds of mechanical switches and telephone style rotary searching relays, both of which make a fair amount of noise and have their own problems. The first computer "bug" and the reason for the name that stuck around and is still used today was actually just that -- an insect few into one of the relay or switch mechanisms and jammed it causing the machine to make an error in a calculation.
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The first pocket calculators were quite a shock. In that day, many offices still used mechanical adding machines that weighed 20 pounds or more.
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Early in my career we had the king of the mechanical calculators, the Monroe-matic IQ which could also do multiplication and division! That would have been about 1970 or so.
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My two newer computers were hand-me-downs from a nonprofit where I worked many years go so are quite old. However, maximizing the RAM and installing 1TB SSD drive has made all the difference and they breeze along nicely. One has Windows 10 (the latest it will handle) for those very rare occasions when only Microsoft will do) but I run Ubuntu Studio (Linux) primarily as it runs circles around Windows even on older hardware.
My Oregon PC predates both of these but was similarly updated although the SSD was something of an issue due to it have the older IDE drive interface. I found a way, though, and made it happen! It has Ubuntu too.
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James J. Nance in the 1960s, with Charles Miller, regional vice-president of General Electric, and GE's newest model computer.
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