Hello, Reading all of this is really so interesting to me! I was born in 1998 and I feel like I've missed out on so much!
My first computer was an Intel Pentium 4 with 256MB RAM and 40GB HDD. Hopefully I'll get to at least tinker with some of the old tech! Regards, Atharva Lele On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:43 AM Daniel Ortiz <elamigodanielor...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it is desired or decided to try to replicate the experience of paper > tape coding then theoretically Google's teachable machine could be one > component used to accomplish that: > https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:02 AM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net > > > wrote: > > > You can still get the clack-clack-ding-ding without the hardware: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5oomwEBb0 > > > > but it's hard to replicate the smell of paper tape. > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 4:08 AM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > > > > > "My first computer" was a DEC PDP8 at Tektronix, which I > > > was allowed to use at age 16 in 1969. The programming was > > > language was FOCAL. No disk drive - I/O was an ASR-33 > > > teletype, and a "high speed" 60 character-per-second paper > > > tape reader. > > > > > > I compare that to my new 80 gram, 1 Terabyte SATA3 solid > > > state drive. A terabyte of paper tape would fill a cube > > > 20 meters on a side, weigh more than 10,000 metric tonnes, > > > and take 530 years to read. > > > > > > Not all was bad back then. The lawns we kids were told > > > to get off of were larger. > > > > > > Keith > > > > > > -- > > > Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com > > >