----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Post" <davep...@earthlink.net> To: <users@openoffice.org> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish.
> Ok, I'll play. How about a DEC PDP-8 with 4K (12-bit) memory locations > and a teletype for reading/writing programs on paper tape? Or a Wang > programmable desktop calculator with Nixie-tube display and the > ability to read up to 2 (Yes! 2! We were agog.) cards on which you'd > record programs by punching holes in them with a stylus? Um -- frightening. I don't know what my mom and her sister used. PDP-8? Might have been a PDP-10. I'd ask if we were still on speaking terms. She never told me. Her ex husband did when I made enquiries as to who my real father is. But that's way OT. I may have downloaded a user manual for one of those. Not QUITE as intimidating as the user manual.... I forget. Some monster neanderthal from the 1950s. Excuse the brain fart. I should know what it is called. Before my time. Sorry. I was only (???) born in the sixties. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
