And to think they built the SR-71 with those things. -sc
> -----Original Message----- > From: Kim Longenbaugh [mailto:k...@colonialsavings.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 11:12 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Friday diversion > > I had an abacus when I was a kid. When I got to high school, I got a slide rule. > We had a computer science class featuring a teletype terminal with an > acoustic modem that connected to a LameFrame at a local college. It ran > Fortran. Our programs were stored on paper tape created/read by an > attachment on the teletype terminal. > The slide rule was faster. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 10:03 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Friday diversion > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > wrote: > > Man, I remember a bunch of these... > > I remember using and even owning several of those products, let alone the > ads. > > My first "IBM compatible" was a Tandy 1000 SL. Neat machine for the day. > Had MS-DOS in ROM so you didn't need to boot from floppy. > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~