TimberKing Sawmills



Please visit this sponsor

The Largest Inventory of Used Chainsaw Parts in the World

Toll Free 1-800-582-0470

LogRite Tools

Lucas Sawmills

Forest Products Industry Insurance

Norwood Industries Inc.

Eggimann Motor and Equipment Sales Inc.

Sawmill & Woodlot Magazine

Wood-Mizer Band Blades

Carolina Machinery Sales is a machinery dealer that specializes in the Wood Processing Industry.

Wood Processing equpment. Splitters, Processors, Conveyors

Your source for Portable Sawmills, Edgers, Resaws, Sharpeners, Setters, Bandsaw Blades and Sawmill Parts

Portable Sawmill and Planers Made by Logosol.

EZ Boardwalk Sawmills. More Saw For Less Money!

STIHLDealers.com sponsored by Northeast STIHL

Lawn-Gardening-Tools.com

Hutto Wood Products

Woodland Sawmills

Margeson Insurance

Forestry Forum Tool Box

Poll

Who invented the computer?

Al Gore
1 (3.7%)
IBM
1 (3.7%)
That guy that just retired and is married to Melinda (wife's guess)
1 (3.7%)
ABC
1 (3.7%)
Apple
0 (0%)
Jeff Brokaw
5 (18.5%)
Bell Labs
6 (22.2%)
None of the above
12 (44.4%)

Total Members Voted: 27

« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Down

Author Topic: The Computer  (Read 763 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Gary_C

  • Senior Member x2
  • *****
  • Posts: 4254
  • Age: 69
  • Location: Blooming Prairie, MN USA
  • Gender: Male
  • Sunrise on the Prairie
The Computer
« on: June 17, 2006, 12:23:12 am »
If you pick none of the above, explain your guess.

If you have to look up the answer, you should confess.   :P

Logged
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2006, 12:29:10 am »
I would like to say a few words as it seems that I am running in this most important election due to a grassroots campaign that I really had no idea that existed. I hope these words help to spawn a greater threshold of knowledge and respect for things that we don't always see coming to the forefront for the individual and his relative situations that compound his choices to an extent where he must turn to those that are most able to function in a place of particular circumstance. I appreciate your support and hope that the world comes to a timely conclusion before the poles melt.

Thank you and good night. :)
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline RichlandSawyer

  • Full Member x2
  • ***
  • Posts: 238
  • Age: 43
  • Location: Iowa
  • Gender: Male
  • You hurt'em, You hurt'em BAD
Re: The Computer
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2006, 12:30:51 am »
Attanasoff and Berry invented the first digital computer at Iowa State University in Ames Iowa,,  uuuhhhh 1942 i think.
Logged
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2006, 12:31:34 am »
BLASPHEMY!
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline DanG

  • Senior Member x2
  • *****
  • Posts: 12035
  • Age: 65
  • Location: Chattahoochee, Florida USA
  • Gender: Male
  • DanG, The Official ForestryForum Cussword
Re: The Computer
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2006, 12:32:03 am »
I picked "None of the above".

Explanation:  It was none of the above. ;D

Hmmm!  It appears that Jeff Brokaw and Al Gore are actually the same person, but maybe not. ???
Logged
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Offline RichlandSawyer

  • Full Member x2
  • ***
  • Posts: 238
  • Age: 43
  • Location: Iowa
  • Gender: Male
  • You hurt'em, You hurt'em BAD
Re: The Computer
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2006, 12:32:11 am »
Oh come on Jef everybody knows Al invented the internet not the computer. DUH!!!
Logged
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2006, 12:35:24 am »
AHA! A Democrat! Ya spelled al's name right yet mispelled mine! Just cause I got twice as many letters in mine is NO EXCUSE! I see your tactics. Its dirty politics I say!
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline JimBuis

  • Senior Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 635
  • Age: 55
  • Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Gender: Male
Re: The Computer
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2006, 12:35:41 am »
Answering the question, "Who invented the computer?", is at least difficult and results in responses that are quite debatable.  There were machines which were invented centuries ago that were arguably laying the ground work for the eventual invention of the computer.  The computer must be attributed to the work of many, many people and certainly not one person.

IMasalwaysHO
Jim
Logged
Jim Buis                             Peterson 10" WPF swingmill

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2006, 12:36:29 am »
Attanasoff  sounds real close to Jeff if you use pig latin.
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline RichlandSawyer

  • Full Member x2
  • ***
  • Posts: 238
  • Age: 43
  • Location: Iowa
  • Gender: Male
  • You hurt'em, You hurt'em BAD
Re: The Computer
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2006, 12:41:15 am »
A Dem huh?? well is Jeff actually your first name "Mr. Brokaw"............

Sounds like a vast leftwing conspiracy to me.
Logged
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2006, 12:42:35 am »
Mr. Brokaw is from a state without trees has beady eyes and used to do the news.
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2006, 12:44:28 am »
Its a close race. I'm tied with none of the above. 8)
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #12 on: June 17, 2006, 12:45:25 am »
I wonder if hes from a blue state?
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline RichlandSawyer

  • Full Member x2
  • ***
  • Posts: 238
  • Age: 43
  • Location: Iowa
  • Gender: Male
  • You hurt'em, You hurt'em BAD
Re: The Computer
« Reply #13 on: June 17, 2006, 12:50:55 am »
Oh POO!!!

   This is no fair i was trying to vote for none of the above but these butterfly ballets are too confusing. I ended up voting for some guy named chad.


(No floridians were intentionaly made fun of in the writing of this post)
Logged
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

Offline DanG

  • Senior Member x2
  • *****
  • Posts: 12035
  • Age: 65
  • Location: Chattahoochee, Florida USA
  • Gender: Male
  • DanG, The Official ForestryForum Cussword
Re: The Computer
« Reply #14 on: June 17, 2006, 12:54:42 am »
Mr. Brokaw was replaced by some guy that looks like his head was smushed by a Greyhound bus.  One of his beady eyes is right over his nose!  Other than that, he seems like a good ol' boy. :)

I never could keep the Red State, Blew State thing straight.  I'm from a Confused State. ??? ::)
Logged
"I don't feel like an old man.  I feel like a young man who has something wrong with him."  Dick Cavett
"Beat not thy sword into a plowshare, rather beat the sword of thine enemy into a plowshare."

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #15 on: June 17, 2006, 12:56:11 am »
I'm from a black and blue state.
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline Gary_C

  • Senior Member x2
  • *****
  • Posts: 4254
  • Age: 69
  • Location: Blooming Prairie, MN USA
  • Gender: Male
  • Sunrise on the Prairie
Re: The Computer
« Reply #16 on: June 17, 2006, 12:58:20 am »
Jeff, that was a great campaign speech and I was thinking of voting for you myself, but it's hard to fool those guys from Iowa.  :D

Who did it

The real story

From Wikipedia

Actually I snuck in a reference to the name of the machine.   ABC could be considered a correct answer.  Sorry DanG.  :D

The man thought of this "computer" after driving 200 miles and drinking some bourbon.    ;D ;D
Logged
Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

Offline RichlandSawyer

  • Full Member x2
  • ***
  • Posts: 238
  • Age: 43
  • Location: Iowa
  • Gender: Male
  • You hurt'em, You hurt'em BAD
Re: The Computer
« Reply #17 on: June 17, 2006, 01:10:40 am »
Back in my younger days i was a programmer. C and UNIX then i got therapy and i'm all better now. Well except for the corn infection thing but doc says a couple more shots of penicilin and that will be all cleared up.
Logged
Every log i open up, a board falls out!!!

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2006, 01:14:23 am »
Yep, a few shots at a silo will surely cure a corn infection. :)
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.

Offline Jeff

  • Lead Administrator
  • Administrator
  • *****
  • Posts: 33561
  • Age: 50
  • Location: Harrison MI
  • Gender: Male
    • THEE Forestry Forum
Re: The Computer
« Reply #19 on: June 17, 2006, 01:15:02 am »
OK who's the DanG turncoat who voted for Al Gore? FESS UP! >:(
Logged
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. Winston Churchill.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Bottle Washer.
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Testing New Bottom Sponsor Area

Saw Anywhere!