On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:37:32 -0500 Miles Fidelman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Brian wrote: > > On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 08:34:57 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > >> Fair enough, but... I have to say it.... > >> > >> Back in my day, we not only had to walk to school, uphill, in both > >> directions, in the snow, but we also had to build our computers by > >> hand, from TTL logic gates. :-) > > You had TTL logic gates? Boy, you were lucky! We were given relay > > switches from cast-off telephone equipment. And we had to buy our > > own electrodes and lemons to power the machine. > > > > > Ahh yes, programmable relay logic. Still around, by the way. :-) > > Ok, anybody here played with really old IBM card sorters - the kind > that you programmed with patch cords? (Not me, I might add.) > Like an IBM 1400? 'Musing along Jack -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
