[GNC] GnuCash 5.9 on macOS 15.2 Dev Beta

[Michael or Penny Novack]

On 11/4/2024 8:55 AM, Kalpesh Patel wrote:
> I remember something like that from many moons ago. Specifically it had to
> do with vacuum tubes and mechanical relays, rather than transistors, and
> early computers were room sized ones when that term came to be in the
> computer world's fold.

LOL. I'm old enough to remember.

circa 1960 I and a high school friend constructed a small 4 bit 
demonstration computer that was ALL solid state (transistors, hand 
strung toroids for core, etc. That was early for a 100% solid state device.

circa 1962 I was at university, summers working on a (then) state of the 
art differential analyzer. ONE of the jobs was sitting inside the 
machine with a case of 12AX7's replacing tubes as they blew << mean time 
between failure ~10 minutes! >> Or taking readings of transistors 
sitting on precision hot plates, then on a plate at a different 
temperature and putting into the appropriate pigeon hole < when we had 
enough pairs that would cancel each other we could make that many solid 
state units to replace the $@!%&% tubes - > Or over in the Moore School 
library researching circuits, one wall always cold as the other side of 
that wall ENIAC still kept running as a museum piece.

Turned me off on computers << back to them  ~1979 after experiencing 
that hardware had come a long way and rest of my working days spent in 
the cypher mines >>

Michael D Novack