padawan12 wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:03:39 -0500 (EST) > Mathieu Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> When I was born, "manual" was all about punching holes in cardboard and >> feeding it to the card-reader. However, when I actually started >> programming, "manual" was about having to press Play at the same time and >> listen to the sound of files recorded at 600 bauds, and pressing >> Fast-Forward to skip over them, and having to listen to the files to count >> how many had been skipped over and reading the sleeve to make sure I got >> to the right file. It was not as manual as splicing tapes though. >> >> I mean, one should marvel at how much something like dpkg is automatic :) > > > You lucky bastard. We had suck the air out of vacuum tubes using our own > breath. > And we were grateful! > > :)
You lucky bastard! Where I grew up, we had no air and had to live on anaerobic muscle work ;) cu Thomas -- "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance." (Leto II. in: Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune) http://thomas.dergrossebruder.org/ _______________________________________________ PD-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list