I spent my time on punch cards. I will never forget the need for the ; in the 72nd column of each row. Or the high cost of a typo. Or of dropping the card stack.
And that pain taught me the benefits of social engineering, creative lock workarounds, and hacking, the combination of which got me (unauthorized) access to a CRT terminal. Ah, that was nice. One of my favorite first computing memories was keying in the Star Trek game onto a PDP11 my father had access to. Took me a week, but finally got it running. Then learned to chang the words of the game. Loved it. And decided me down the path of software over hardware (to my father's everlasting disappointment) On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Maureen <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Youngster. Did my senior thesis on 9000 keypunch cards. My first > modem was a Bell 103. > > I liked Fidonet. And PCBoard. Wasn't much of a fan of Wildcat. > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Jerry Johnson<jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I eventually ran a fidonet board. > > > > Did anyone else ever spend time trying to mimic the sounds of an acoustic > > coupled 300 baud modem, trying to whistle the connect command? > > > > Or notch a floppy to use the back side of the disk? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299502 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
