ahhhhh South Africa, perfect climate, great scenery.........................we are entering our 1000th day of winter here with 20cm of snow coming down
-----Original Message----- From: du Plessis, Corneil C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:54 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Here in South Africa technology was in the same state in the late 70s and early 80s. Doing computer studies meant complete coding sheet this week next week receive punch cards and compile report if successfull compile you may even get an execution report. 8 programs took the whole year to complete. We actually went to visit the computer room half-way through our senior year as a class trip. By that time I already had a ZX Spectrum and was laughing my at this room ful of computer with not much more capability the my little spectrum. -----Original Message----- From: Pani, Gourav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March, 2003 17:47 To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing ok so i am a kid. first computer - 386. -----Original Message----- From: Bueno Carlos M [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:46 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Dang, I must be a youngster -- mine were a Zenith-Heath kit computer running CP/M and an Atari 400 with BASIC. -----Original Message----- From: Kandi Potter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 9:34 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing My guess is early 70s........because my first experience was also in high school using an old IBM System ?? with 64k memory. It took up a complete room. You saved your program by not dropping the punch cards. If your program didn't have any compile errors, it would be 20 minutes executing until the output came out on the printer ! -----Original Message----- From: Ray Madigan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:38 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing Well - lets see: Does older win this contest :-) My first computing experience was in high school. We had a room in the science lab with an old IBM computer - I think at one time it was the state of the art mainframe. But you would program with toggle switches, and you could save your program to rolls of punch paper. If the paper role tore or got bent you were out of luck. Anyone wanna guess how long ago that was. LOL -----Original Message----- From: Clement, Stephen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 3:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OT] Ancient computing I wrote the first design patterns using sticks and stones. Facade was easy. Iterator was hard and took up a lot of rocks. :) -----Original Message----- From: awc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:02 PM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Ancient computing TI-994A - which could generate tow tones same time. very cool machine. .anil James Childers wrote: > My first experience with programming was on a TI-994A. Had 4K RAM, I think, and no storage. Yes, you heard me right: no storage. Not a floppy. 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