Why back in my days, we didn't even have computers. No sir, we used our fingers and toes to count. When we talked about the web, it was something hanging in the shadows on the front porch.
Yep, I remember them days. When you ordered something online (telephone line that is) you had to wait 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Now you can get it Next day Air!!! The only Next Day Air I had was after eating Mexican the day before. James Mitchell Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network" http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 2:36 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: RE: Struts & Persistence > > > > > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Chappell, Simon P wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:49:28 -0500 > > From: "Chappell, Simon P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: RE: Struts & Persistence > > > > My first four computers did not have hard drives. My first two didn't > > even have floppy drives, you had to save and load from audio tape!!!!! > > > > Those were the days ... I remember toggling the 30-step bootstrap code > into a PDP-8 (a 12-bit computer, forsooth!) using the front panel > switches ... :-) > > Of course, that particular machine was actually pretty cool for its day -- > it had DecTapes on it, which had addressible segments like a disk. The > random access seek times were measured in minutes instead of milliseconds, > but what the hey ... > > Craig > > > I think that computer number 5 had a 40Mb HDD. Computer number 6 is now > > gone and I don't remember any of the specs. Computer number 7 had a 4Gb > > HDD and now number 8 has a 60Gb HDD (it also has 1.5Gb of RAM, but I > > digress! :-). > > > > Simon > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Simon P. Chappell [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Java Programming Specialist www.landsend.com > > Lands' End, Inc. (608) 935-4526 > > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > > >From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:24 AM > > >To: Struts Users Mailing List > > >Subject: RE: Struts & Persistence > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, James Mitchell wrote: > > > > > >> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:43:58 -0400 > > >> From: James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Subject: RE: Struts & Persistence > > >> > > >> HAHAHA....Yes, and that's fine if you're not trying to backup 17 > > >> Gig....sheesh. > > >> > > > > > ><Friday Alert> > > > > > >I'm old enough to remember being absolutely giddy over the > > >amount of space available on my first hard disk drive -- ten whole > > >*mega*bytes! Whatever would I do with all of that space? > > > > > ></Friday Alert> > > > > > >Craig > > > > > > > > >> James "Sasquatch on crack" Mitchell > > >> Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist > > >> Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network" > > >> http://www.open-tools.org/struts-atlanta > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > -----Original Message----- > > >> > From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >> > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:37 AM > > >> > To: Struts Users Mailing List > > >> > Subject: Re: Struts & Persistence > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > James Mitchell wrote: > > >> > > > >> > >>(James) Get that Linux box up?! :-) > > >> > >> > > >> > >LOL......no I started consolidating my Laptop HD and noticed > > >> > that I didn't > > >> > >have enough room on my file server to backup what I had. > > >So I'll have to > > >> > >either get another 80 Gig or take the time to go through and > > >> > delete all that > > >> > >Free Software I seem to keep collecting. > > >> > > > > >> > >Hey, I wonder what 'format c:\' does. Oh SHI#!!!!!!! > > >STOP STOP STO > > >> > > > > >> > Ever heard of CD-R/CD-RW? They really are quite handy :-) ... and > > >> > CD-R/Ws (disks and writers too) are really quite cheap! > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > -- > > >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > >> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > For additional commands, e-mail: > > >> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
