Oh, for sure - Computers were just plain *FUN* back then !!! Now, they're just a *&^%in' job..... We had two different ways of generating computer 'music' back then - One, was to turn to a really low band on one of those new-fangled Japanese transistor radios and set it on top of the CPU. The other way was to put the print chain in neutral, run a bunch of cards thru the reader and listen to the 'tune' on the printer.....
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Wolfgang Bornath > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:34 PM > To: Expert List > Subject: Re: [expert] a stooooooooopid question > > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 15:12 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > Wobo, > > A Univac computer for me.. and yes pitty the poor individual who > > didn't get the cover seated correctly on the card reader..... Cards > > flying everywhere. (Pity them even more if thier cards weren't > > numbered!!) The real treat was paper tape readers.... Do remember > > watching someone "edit" his code with an xacto knife (couldn't get time > > on the card punch machines because of a power outage) by candlelight no > > less. That's when I decided to go systems.... no soldering irons and no > > knives hehe. > > But, you know, all this new shiny notebook and desktop stuff, it's > handy and I love testing some new things I learned and sometimes I feel > adventurous and do something like installing FreeBSD or some small > Linux distro. > > But it's not the adventure of those times way back when. We may have > cursed the d**** cards and the forms we wrote our assembler codes on. We > may have cursed the d***** white coats feeling important and whining > about computer time all day long. But I felt like a boy with his > electric train on Christmas eve. > > I don't have that feeling with any of our modern computers. > Only once in a while, exactly once in a half year when the new Mandrake > distro is out! > > Writing that reminds me of some more translations I have to do until > tomorrow for the new distro. Back to work! > > wobo > -- > "... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus." (Aug 2001, Usenet) > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html > >
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