[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[Roy Vestal]

Heh, in the early 90's, I was a "board op" on the weekends at a local AM 
station. The owner's brother him setup a 386 based PC running *cough* 
Windows *cough* and a broadcast "suite" for automating the boards. I 
helped him setup the communications (at a whopping 2400 baud) so he 
could connect from home and run the station.

Within a month I lost my job. :(

Stinking automation!  ;)

J.C. Jones wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> At least you have had the opportunity to get an "education" in 
> computers. What I have learned has been through necessity and I don't do 
> a very good job of learning.
> 
> The world of broadcast automation has changed drastically since I was 
> first exposed to it in the sixties.
> 
> I need to visit one of the local radio stations and see how they are 
> using automation, pc's, etc today. I am sure that it is nothing like my 
> days of radio and television.
> 
> jcj
> 
> Jim Ray wrote:
> 
>>> I was born in 1936 ( makes this an ancient guy story )
>>>
>>> My first "personal" computer was the TI-99-4A. I could only afford the
>>> unit, no disk drives of any sort. I make me a "cassette drive" using a
>>> portable cassette recorder and wired up my own connecting cable.
>>>
>>> Only programming language was a form of basic. Even a short program
>>> would take over 30 minutes to load from cassette to "pc". I usually
>>> loaded the program while I was eating supper. When I finished with my
>>> meal, my computer would be waiting for me.
>>>
>>> One of my first computers that I use in my work was a mini-computer, 12
>>> bit words, and magnetic core memory. It used punch paper tape. It was
>>> part of a broadcast automation system. I never did know the
>>> manufacturer's name for the computer.
>>>
>>> jcj
>>>   
>>
>> [Jim Ray pontificates] you've got me beat by a quarter century :-)  no 
>> one
>> can say they've got more experience than the folks that have seen the
>> industry grow up around us.  thank god/allah/[insert diety of the day] we
>> woke up today.
>>
>>  
>>
>