On Thursday 12 March 2009, Ugly Me wrote:
>----- 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.
That about had to be a Marchant, a 12 digit mechanical calculator. Or maybe a
Boroughs?
>Before my time. Sorry. I was only (???) born in the sixties.
Somebody get this fellow a towel, he might be still wet behind the ears. Said
by someone born in the first half of the 30's, and whose warranty has long
since expired...
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Asynchronous inputs are at the root of our race problems.
-- D. Winker and F. Prosser
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