I liked line printers spewing out stacks and stacks of wide paper with
all sorts of indecipherable stuff, esp when you got a core dump when
your program bombed. A woman at NASA actually taught me how to read
core dumps and figure out what bit of code did the nasty, so I could go
back and fix it quickly. I used this newfound skill with various other
students when I got back to school, and was a god to them when I did
it. It was nothing short of magic. I could read it and sort out the
problem in about 30sec after they had taken hours to try to debug their
code. Unfortunately it never helped me get, um, female companionship,
just respect with the dudes.
--R
On 5/30/12 9:54 PM, Craig wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2012 21:38:12 -0400 Allan Streib<str...@cs.indiana.edu>
wrote:
Peter Frederick<psf...@earthlink.net> writes:
But we are talking mid 70's. When Xerox came up with the Diablo daisy
wheel, all the Selectric terminals went away, too much maintenance.
I remember the diablos. Sounded like a gatling gun when they were in
action.
Laser printers were a dramatic improvement.
Craig
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