Software Again

RE: http://stamppagetor.sourceforge.net/

Looks promising, However...

It seems to be a complicated download lacking instructions for dummies.
Do I Have to download a Java program first (which one of 3 listed) for Windows 7?

Do I run or save or run and save?

Windows 7 should have the latest version of Java, which self updates. I would just choose run, unless you plan on using ti on other computers, then saving to a USB stick makes it to install from.

The nice thing about a spread sheet is that it can be used by Access to create reports.

Nope, my Windows 7 does not have the JAVA program.

The Stamp Page Creator has a link to Java JRE downloads but you have to know which one you want

They offer:
Windows x86 Online 0.86 MB jre-7u25-windows-i586-iftw.exe
Windows x86 Offline 30.25 MB jre-7u25-windows-i586.exe
Windows x86 40 MB jre-7u25-windows-i586.tar.gz
Windows x64 31.61 MB jre-7u25-windows-x64.exe
Windows x64 41.69 MB jre-7u25-windows-x64.tar.gz

I am assuming that Windows x64 31.61 MB jre-7u25-windows-x64.exe is the correct choice but I am not sure.

If your pc is 64 bit system then yes. Look at your system information to be sure.

The nice thing is it will tell you if its the wrong one. No harm to be done.

When I go to Java.com and click download it knows I have windows 8

Go with this one for maximum compatibility:

Windows x86 Offline 30.25 MB jre-7u25-windows-i586.exe

My system is 64-Bit,
I loaded Java.
I loaded the Stamp Page Creator
For some reason I can find no instructions on how to use it.
It just brings up one title page with non-working functions
I've reload it twice more and still nothing.

Hi,
These are few screenshots for Auired or interested Items (Stamps)


fig1
This is Main Form inputting Stamp Auired, Clicking on Button opens up
Rightside Form.


fig2
A blank form for specification of that perticular stamp(Item)


fig3

fig4

Fig3-4 shows expanding lookup one picks up spec.

What is opinion for Second Form are these too many Specs to pickup
tries toeliminate typing in but one has to pickup pertaining spec.
So one has stamp with these Specifications.
any addition,removal ... suggestion.

Note. For Spreadsheet I would go with wt1 approcah. Also now a days
using VBA one can do automisation of spreadsheets.

When I first started to work on computers you had to get inside them and walk around. Now you can take a more powerful computer with you and you can hold it in one hand.

For the 1st program I had to update, I had to do it with a pair of side cutters, cutting out diodes to make the zeros and leaving them in for the ones (1970). Someplace I still have my maintenance certification papers for drum memories, disc packs and tape drives.

Art

Does anyone have any of the punch cards from Big Blue?

Hi


I might have a few in a box somewhere. What color do you need?

I also have the following (remember these?)

punch card pin sorter
keypunch card saw
box carriage control tape
carriage control tape punch
binary card overlay
RPG layout card
green card (everybody's favorite, could not do without it)

I started on a IBM 1620 with Fortran I.

Isn't it amazing that we pretty much "invented the world" on 4K to 32K machines. Today programmers cannot do anything in less than a gigabyte and a terabyte hard drive.

Interesting tidbit (if my math is right) using 2311 disk packs at 7.5 M each:
1 gigabyte = 136 disk packs
1 Terabyte = 139,819 disk packs

I worked on an 1130 that had a single 2315 drive. Each disk held 1,024 bytes (512 16 bit words) so in that case:
1 gigabyte = 1,048,576 disk packs
1 terabyte = 1,073,741,824 disk packs

We have come a long way.

Jerry B

I remember those quite well. The 1620 did service long long after it was considered obsolete.




I have worked on more than a few programs by moving wires. It was considered outdated even then...everybody was using the ultra modern punch cards. I usualy drew the short straw because the older stuff didn't scare me...after all if it was broke how bad could I mess it up?

Guykickinit

Used many a punch card in my day. At school they wasted my time by teaching me to run card sorters and printing machines to print letters and characters on the tops of them. Seem to remember big boards that one had to physically wire from hole to hole to get the result. Worked for Chicago in their computer facility in the early 80s. They had some older "Digital" computers that needed to be kick started by entering the physical address of the operating system by a dozen or so series of switches on the front panel of the of the computer.


I also worked for a company that made computer cards and paper from scratch. Big Blue had some sort of patent for the card and / or the machine that made them. The owner of the company I worked for quit IBM as a card salesman and sued for the rights to make the cards himself by getting a hold of one of the machines. He won the lawsuit and became a multi millionaire.

Big blue was also used by Nazi Germany to keep track of prisoners.
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/i...?article=663

Hi

The IBM 1130 system was so popular that it still used today.
http://ibm1130.org/

or this interesting site:
http://www.computerhistory.org/projects/ibm_1620/

Jerry B