On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:41, Edward Croft wrote:
Kevin, you want me to hold him down while you thwack
him! :-P
I started in '83 on a Kaypro II, then 85 switched to
Digital VAX, then
DG, and so on and so forth
Anybody remember soldering together HeathKit PCs?
Not the PC,
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
SNIP
Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and having
to manually
resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you did not
bother to number the
cards using columns 73-80 of the cards so the card sorter
could do it for you.a
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:06:19AM -0400, Edward Croft wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
SNIP
Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and having
to manually
resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you did not
bother to number the
cards using
snip
Those of you complaing about bandwidth should remember the early days.
300baud acoustic modems on a Silent 700 terminal with thermal paper. At
my first job, we paid 60 cents per 1000 characters transmitted or
received. Those charges could really add up!
My first infinite loop as a
From: Edward Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:06:19 -0400
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
SNIP
Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and having
to manually resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you
did not bother to number the cards
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
SNIP
Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and
having
to manually
resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you did not
snip
ROTFLMAOPMP, Kenneth, I give up, you win! you win!
Sheesh.
I remember Hollerith cards
Been there, done that. Fortran IV was where it was at!
At
the time I
took my programming languages course, we took APL, Algol
and PL/1. C
wasn't invented yet. We also studied Fortran, Cobol, and
Assembler
(good old IBM 360 at that).
I have(had) a friend in college who was an APL
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 14:51, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
sniP
Hayes started to take off as a company back then and became
KING of MODEMS for
quite a while. I remember running UUCP over Telebit
Trailblazer modems
for NETNEWS in a point to Point UUCP HoneyDanBer dialup
network.
from Darpa to
From: Edward Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Card sorters? You had card sorters? Ok, we *may* have had
one, but I'm not
sure.
yes and damn glad of it..
Then there's my favorite - the time in school when my
short program would
not run, and would not run, JCL error, and it was the
only
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote:
I've touched liquid mercury memory...I've seen attacked chips halt and
catch fire on a 6800 embedded...I've seen C code glitter in the
display of a BLIT...all of these moments will be lost in Internet
time, like packets in a storm.
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 06:48:57PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote:
I've touched liquid mercury memory...I've seen attacked chips halt and
catch fire on a 6800 embedded...I've seen C code glitter in the
display of a BLIT...all of
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:41, Edward Croft wrote:
Kevin, you want me to hold him down while you thwack him! :-P
I started in '83 on a Kaypro II, then 85 switched to Digital VAX, then
DG, and so on and so forth
Anybody remember soldering together HeathKit PCs?
Not the PC, but some of the
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 10:08:33AM -0700, Anthony Liu wrote:
Hi,
My company wants me to take the LPIC1 test soon. Can
you guys tell me what is the passing percentage?
Thanks a lot.
I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I
passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:11:51AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I
passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but fair) exam for an entry level
certification.
Hmm...interesting. I'm curious what someone with a background like mine
would
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:37:36AM -0500, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:11:51AM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
I read somewhere that it was around 42%, so I feel fortunate that I
passed. It's a surprisingly hard (but fair) exam for an entry level
certification.
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:04:59PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
Gosh, 25 years. You must be old ;-).
*sigh*.
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Kevin, you want me to hold him down while you thwack him! :-P
I started in '83 on a Kaypro II, then 85 switched to Digital VAX, then
DG, and so on and so forth
Anybody remember soldering together HeathKit PCs?
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 14:24, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:04:59PM
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 13:24, Dave Ihnat wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:04:59PM -0400, Kevin MacNeil wrote:
Gosh, 25 years. You must be old ;-).
*sigh*.
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Damn, even your sighs sound old :)
did you have to pedal your computers back then like sewing machines used
to do?
Bret - who
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Edward Croft wrote:
Kevin, you want me to hold him down while you thwack him! :-P
I'll hold him down!
I started in '83 on a Kaypro II, then 85 switched to Digital VAX, then
DG, and so on and so forth
I completed my CompSci degree in 1980. My
45 huh! Sheesh, I will be that Sep 28th. Us old timers got to stick
together.
Just think of it, Sputnik was launched in the year I was born. And look
how far we have come in just my lifetime.
Hell, I remember having a discussion with Robert Metcalf regarding my
lack of a degree and how my
Kevin, you want me to hold him down while you thwack him! :-P
I started in '83 on a Kaypro II, then 85 switched to Digital VAX, then
DG, and so on and so forth
Anybody remember soldering together HeathKit PCs?
HEY! *I* had a Kaypro II back in '83! CP/M Rocked! Of course, I was 16
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:54:19PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote:
Damn, even your sighs sound old :)
Young whippersnappers...
did you have to pedal your computers back then like sewing machines used
to do?
Damn skippy. Hell, back then, we didn't have zeroes or ones--we had to
make do with modded
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:05:00PM -0400, Edward Croft wrote:
45 huh! Sheesh, I will be that Sep 28th. Us old timers got to stick
together.
Just think of it, Sputnik was launched in the year I was born. And look
Ah, yer just a KID. I was in Jr. High School when Sputnik was launched.
And I'm
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