On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Mike Settle wrote: > 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..... >
OK, all you super-annuated geeks, here's a little test that I found online: Determine how far back your computer skills go by seeing how many of the following you have experience with: Altair 8800 7-track tape 9-track tape chad bins (nothing to do with the polls) drum card card reader line printer line printer forms control tape green bar write ring core memory decollator/burster batch station overlay segments DVST graphics terminal coding form (FORTRAN or COBOL) EBCDIC 110 baud modem ASR teletype paper tape TI silent-700 (the 50 pound model, not the 5 pound one) 10 platter removable disk pack flowchart template Hazeltine 2000 Bell Labs Unix V6 or V7 nixie tube display Commodore Pet Timex Sinclair -dl And who really remembers what a statically-deskewed longitudinal check frame count is? (And I know this really appears off-topic, but this was where Linux came from :)).
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