> Who'd have thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here > alt-tabin' between xterms with a windowmanager of our choice! > > In them days we was glad to have little rectangular pieces of paper > (wet paper!) and would move them on our desk (at least those lucky > bastards who had a desk! a broken desk that is) and point a pencil > (with no grafit) into to the one we wanted to write in. > > And you try and tell the young people of today that > ..... they won't believe you. > >
Not me. Thirty years ago I was introduced to the NCR 8250. We could hunt for wumpuses or write code or process batch files from our customers. A couple of years later the NCR tech amazed us by switching the console from white to a black background. This let us play wumpuses a lot longer without the usual eye fatigue. Sadly our customers never really noticed any productivity gain.
