[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[J.C. Jones]

Roy,

I wonder how many times the station went dead because of a BSOD?

jcj

Roy Vestal wrote:

> 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.
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>
>

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