RE: [PHP] private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]
[snip] Read up on the history of computers -- the first programmer, as I recall, was one Lady Lovelace who programmed Babbage's first mechanical computer (if you don't count the abacus) in the early 1800's. Of course, I remember programming with rocks and that was before we had zero's. We only had one's and that was a programming nightmare. You new guys at least have 1's and 0's to work with. [/snip] ROFLMMFAO! You had rocks?!? Dang dude. I can't top that. I remember when we got our first hard-drive in the lab...a 10Mb dishwasher sized behemoth with its own AC unit -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]
On 3/29/06, Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Read up on the history of computers -- the first programmer, as I recall, was one Lady Lovelace who programmed Babbage's first mechanical computer (if you don't count the abacus) in the early 1800's. Of course, I remember programming with rocks and that was before we had zero's. We only had one's and that was a programming nightmare. You new guys at least have 1's and 0's to work with. [/snip] ROFLMMFAO! You had rocks?!? Dang dude. I can't top that. lol! that must've been before the wheel. I remember when we got our first hard-drive in the lab...a 10Mb dishwasher sized behemoth with its own AC unit -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Anthony Ettinger Signature: http://chovy.dyndns.org/hcard.html
RE: [PHP] private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]
At 8:50 AM -0600 3/29/06, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Read up on the history of computers -- the first programmer, as I recall, was one Lady Lovelace who programmed Babbage's first mechanical computer (if you don't count the abacus) in the early 1800's. Of course, I remember programming with rocks and that was before we had zero's. We only had one's and that was a programming nightmare. You new guys at least have 1's and 0's to work with. [/snip] ROFLMMFAO! You had rocks?!? Dang dude. I can't top that. I remember when we got our first hard-drive in the lab...a 10Mb dishwasher sized behemoth with its own AC unit Not meaning to continue this thread, but you brought back memories. I remember in the early 80's when Crovis (sp) came out the their first HD -- at least it was the first I drooled over. It had 5 Megs and cost $5k and you could daisy-chain three together to get a whopping 15M for only $15,000. In my last HD purchase, 15M cost me less than $0.01. Not a bad advance in technology over the last 20 years, huh? tedd -- http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]
tedd wrote: At 8:50 AM -0600 3/29/06, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] Read up on the history of computers -- the first programmer, as I recall, was one Lady Lovelace who programmed Babbage's first mechanical computer (if you don't count the abacus) in the early 1800's. Of course, I remember programming with rocks and that was before we had zero's. We only had one's and that was a programming nightmare. You new guys at least have 1's and 0's to work with. [/snip] ROFLMMFAO! You had rocks?!? Dang dude. I can't top that. I remember when we got our first hard-drive in the lab...a 10Mb dishwasher sized behemoth with its own AC unit Not meaning to continue this thread, but you brought back memories. I remember in the early 80's when Crovis (sp) came out the their first HD -- at least it was the first I drooled over. It had 5 Megs and cost $5k and you could daisy-chain three together to get a whopping 15M for only $15,000. In my last HD purchase, 15M cost me less than $0.01. Not a bad advance in technology over the last 20 years, huh? Hard drives. You wusses. Between punch cards, data cassettes, 5-1/4 and 8 floppies, it was years before I saw a hard drive. -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]
Hard drives. You wusses. Between punch cards, data cassettes, 5-1/4 and 8 floppies, it was years before I saw a hard drive. -- John C. Nichel IV I didn't say that HD's were my first storage medium. I remember typing in 200+ line Star Trek program three times trying to get my GE tape recorder to work when Apple ][ came out with their first computer -- which had a wopping 16k of Integer on the motherboard, but no floppies. Before that, I used magnetic strips, before that a roll of paper punch tape, before that punch cards, and before that we recorded binary on rocks by turning them over in the sun. On cloudy days, our systems would crash. tedd -- http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]
tedd wrote: Hard drives. You wusses. Between punch cards, data cassettes, 5-1/4 and 8 floppies, it was years before I saw a hard drive. -- John C. Nichel IV I didn't say that HD's were my first storage medium. I remember typing in 200+ line Star Trek program three times trying to get my GE tape recorder to work when Apple ][ came out with their first computer -- which had a wopping 16k of Integer on the motherboard, but no floppies. Before that, I used magnetic strips, before that a roll of paper punch tape, before that punch cards, and before that we recorded binary on rocks by turning them over in the sun. On cloudy days, our systems would crash. tedd I forgot the ;) -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
