You beat me by a,year. I was using an IBM 029 punch card machine to enter my data on a mainframe & get my data back on a data tape.
Dwight Giles Jr. Wickford RI On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 3:47 PM Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > I started with computers in '76 using a TTY keyboard to access gummint > computers. Later, running CPM, I was able to see the evolution using some > of the TTY codes for editing etc. For some reason I was never able to get > interested in the games. I was too hooked on the productivity aspects of > computers. > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Curt > Raymond via Mercedes > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2020 12:33 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: Curt Raymond > Subject: [MBZ] OT: Dichotomy > > Last night I spent some time on the heatwave BBS with my old TI99/4A. Its > pretty crazy connecting a 43 year old computer to a BBS that (at least > purportedly) running on a similar vintage computer. I played a couple door > games, good fun. > Today I created 6 VMs in Microsoft Azure for my students to connect to. I > had to modify my security group to allow each student's IP address and > prevent bad-guys from messing with me. > I'm finding the dichotomy of the two pretty interesting. > Also I've been asking students about their first computer. Considering > most of my students are my age or older I find it interesting that I'm in > the minority in that we had computers in the 1980s, (we got the TI in '83) > most of my students started with computers in the late 1990s... > -Curt > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
