I'd love to try that solution Defiant...but you'll have to hold my hand a bit more on writing a batch file to do that. Can I convince you to post a step-by-step for me? Sorry...I'm a noob at the software side of things.
Thanks all for the warm welcome....I've downloaded the .zip file for the player..it extracts fine..but the setup process reaches 100% and gets stuck. I've let it sit for 10 min...still nothing. I'm using Vista 32 bit. I ran the setup as Admin. Does anyone have the player .exe file and any associated files they could upload here that I can copy directly to my pc without needing to go through the setup process?
There once was a noob from Peru named zndkw1n, you know that it's true I whipped out my shlong so erect and so long and shot him in the face with man-goo.
Ni-ux and I were hiking through the woods one day and came upon a goat with its head stuck in the fence. I thought, what the heck and dropped my pants. I turned to Nick and he looked a little puzzled. I said, "you want some of this?". He said sure, why not. I backed off and zipped up. When I looked up, Nick had his pants down and head stuck in the fence.
"UNIVAC I used 5,200 vacuum tubes,[4] weighed 29,000 pounds (13 metric tons), consumed 125 kW, and could perform about 1,905 operations per second running on a 2.25 MHz clock. The Central Complex alone (i.e. the processor and memory unit) was 4.3 m by 2.4 m by 2.6 m high. The complete system occupied more than 35.5 m² of floor space."
Memory was 1000 words.
The tubes were binary, that is, they were either on or off, like our current computer technology but the data states were represented as pulse trains signifying the value of the word being represented. All the words were equal length so you could think of a word as being sent in an almost Morse code fashion. The basic pulse frequency of the word clock was 1MHz and it took 42 microseconds to transmit one word. One machine word was a 42 bit serial train of pulses clocked at 1MHz.
Storage was mercury delay lines. The computer could never pass today's environmental impact requirements.
The computer only had 8 instructions or an opcode of 3 bits and 2 bits of word and 2 bits of channel selectors for manipulating main memory or the operands of the instructions. Main "memory" was an acoustic delay line of 16 words. You might think of these 16 words as today's instruction/data pipeline.
Yes, you toggled it, but that was to load the program. Much like was done on the first microprocessor machines like the MITS Altair 8800, Imsai 8080 or Cromemco. Once the program was loaded, it would operate until it malfunctioned or hit the halt instruction. Often it was a race to see which would happen first.
All in all an amazing piece of engineering for its day.
HA! I WAS RIGHT! ......well i was off by a 1/4 of a MHz..sue me
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