On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:13:24 -0800 Gerald Chudyk <gchu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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. > http://xkcd.com/378/ -- J.C. Roberts
