Re: OT: Hackers

2004-05-21 Thread Otis Wright
Maybe just wearing it well. Otis Wright Norm Baugher wrote: Bob, you're showing your age... norm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me assure you that there were hackers at MIT in the early '60s, long before there were personal computers or viruses. Hacking was a form of recreation that often encompas

Re: OT: Hackers

2004-05-21 Thread Norm Baugher
Bob, you're showing your age... norm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me assure you that there were hackers at MIT in the early '60s, long before there were personal computers or viruses. Hacking was a form of recreation that often encompassed acomplishing things that were technically involved, chal

Re: OT: Hackers

2004-05-21 Thread Antonio Aparicio
I must admit that my first knowledge of the term Hacker was in a positive, not negative sense too. A. On 21 May 2004, at 21:22, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: Fascinating. My "hacker" days came just a bit later. Those of us who built computers when the first skill one had to have was knowing how to so

Re: OT: Hackers

2004-05-21 Thread Collin Brendemuehl
Fascinating. My "hacker" days came just a bit later. Those of us who built computers when the first skill one had to have was knowing how to solder were the first hobbyist hackers. But that was as much hardware as (and often more than) software. Collin Builder of Netroics Elf II et. al -

Re: OT: Hackers

2004-05-21 Thread Otis Wright
Yup! We were there. Had a great time Otis Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me assure you that there were hackers at MIT in the early '60s, long before there were personal computers or viruses. Hacking was a form of recreation that often encompassed acomplishing things that were t