Welcome to my SMF forum and a very short introduction

[Tony]

              Welcome to my SMF forum and a very short introduction
Retired computer engineer and loving the freedom and the fun away from the rat race
of business. I live in Macclesfield.
My life is very full with many projects on the go never a spare moment to get bored.
I still play about with computers and my grandson is taking a keen interest in computers and spends many hours at our house asking questions. We are spending
many hours building webservers and websites for our own use. Mainly in windows
Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks.

I first got involved with computers in 1969 working on paper tape Farrington1010 word processor and the Mitsubishi Melcom computer.

Later to the R.U.F visible record computer with magnetic core memory The printer used was an IBM selectric typewriter. The cpu was all TTL logic, the firmware TTL and core memory. The programs were knitted enamelled wire through magnetic cores 4k by 20 bit.
Quite a job changing an instruction locating one of 50 wires in a 5mm ferrite ring. All instructions in machine code no compiler.
I have always been interested in electronics and decided to build my first computer about 1973.
A Compukit UK101 based on the Ohio scientific 6502 single board computer, with the skills gained. I was fortunate in being allowed to go to Silicon Valley on a master class on the Onyx C8002 Z8000 micro computer with a 40mb winchester hard disk, this was one of the first microcomputers to use Unix.
Trying to learn all about the diagnostics hardware and Unix operating system.
I only managed to grasp the power of Unix.
Most of my following 40 years in the computer industry have been mainly in hardware. I briefly tried minix 10 years ago and early versions of Linux..
Over the years used linux on customers sites.
Its only recently I have been using Linux at home.
Two years ago I was given a copy of Mandriva 2008 I was amazed to find Linux had improved so much that Linux could soon overtake windows desktop systems
I still love mandriva 2008 version with KDE.
Also built an apache webserver with Fedora7 and 11.
I like the tools in backtrack3.
My home webserver
http://g6xfu.myftp.org/ My home webserver

http://systems-edge.co.uk/ Computer questions and answers
http://systemedge.co.uk/ Test sites
http://www.edge-holidays.com/ Our holiday cottage
http://www.arthur-edge.com/ My first job working for my dad Life in a Pop Factory.
Tony

[Tony]

I came across this interesting web site written by Ian Partridge
virtual calculator museum visit   http://www.vintagecalculators.com

I looked after the service dept at Sumlock Manchester. Royal London House on the Farrington 1010 adp machines and the Anita copmputers. Prior to joining Gordon Foy in servicing the Ruf Computers.
Picture of the Anita Computer
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/BellPunch/AnitaBusComp_A.jpg]



http://www.vintagecalculators.com/BellPunch/html/ruf_accounting_machines.html
RUF Accounting Machines.

Ian Partridge, who was a training instructor for Sumlock service engineers from 1968 until 1975, provides the information that "RUF" series of accounting machines were sold by Sumlock-Anita in the 1970s.

These machines were manufactured by Hohner (yes, the same as the musical
instrument makers!), and they were almost identical to the Nixdorf accounting machines which were marketed earlier by Sumlock. The RUF was, if I remember a licence-built (by Hohner) version of the Nixdorf machine. Nixdorf's was finished in beige, whereas RUF was grey.

I remember servicing the Nixdorf computer I still have one of the desks in my garage.
http://www.vintagecalculators.com/BellPunch/html/logatronic_visible_computer.html
http://www.xnumber.com/xnumber/nixdorf2.htm
While working for Ruf Computers at Burgess Hill
I was fortunate in attending with Alan Taplin on a weeks training course at RUF in Zurich on the Intromat  magnetic ledger card reader on these systems. Following on to three weeks training course at Hermes Everdon in Switzerland on a new micro processor based computer.
Tony Edge

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              Welcome to my SMF forum and a very short introduction
Retired computer engineer and loving the freedom and the fun away from the rat race
of business. I live in Macclesfield.
My life is very full with many projects on the go never a spare moment to get bored.
I still play about with computers and my grandson is taking a keen interest in computers and spends many hours at our house asking questions. We are spending
many hours building webservers and websites for our own use. Mainly in windows
Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks.

I first got involved with computers in 1969 working on paper tape Farrington1010 word processor and the Mitsubishi Melcom computer.

Later to the R.U.F visible record computer with magnetic core memory The printer used was an IBM selectric typewriter. The cpu was all TTL logic, the firmware TTL and core memory. The programs were knitted enamelled wire through magnetic cores 4k by 20 bit.
Quite a job changing an instruction locating one of 50 wires in a 5mm ferrite ring. All instructions in machine code no compiler.
I have always been interested in electronics and decided to build my first computer about 1973.
A Compukit UK101 based on the Ohio scientific 6502 single board computer, with the skills gained. I was fortunate in being allowed to go to Silicon Valley on a master class on the Onyx C8002 Z8000 micro computer with a 40mb winchester hard disk, this was one of the first microcomputers to use Unix.
Trying to learn all about the diagnostics hardware and Unix operating system.
I only managed to grasp the power of Unix.
Most of my following 40 years in the computer industry have been mainly in hardware. I briefly tried minix 10 years ago and early versions of Linux..
Over the years used linux on customers sites.
Its only recently I have been using Linux at home.
Two years ago I was given a copy of Mandriva 2008 I was amazed to find Linux had improved so much that Linux could soon overtake windows desktop systems
I still love mandriva 2008 version with KDE.
Also built an apache webserver with Fedora7 and 11.
I like the tools in backtrack3.
My home webserver
http://g6xfu.myftp.org/ My home webserver

http://systems-edge.co.uk/ Computer questions and answers
http://systemedge.co.uk/ Test sites
http://www.edge-holidays.com/ Our holiday cottage
http://www.arthur-edge.com/ My first job working for my dad Life in a Pop Factory.
Tony

Such a very amazing link!
Thanks you for the post.


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 hello :DI came across this interesting web site written by Ian Partridge