On 03/18/2011 05:17 PM, Jim Kyle wrote: > On Friday, March 18, 2011, at 2:09:58 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > JJK> (note to the humor impaired, I am just joking around in good fun) > > Matter of fact, the first machine that I had full system responsibility for > DID boot from paper tape, but that was when BillG was still in grade > school. It was a very small mainframe, and was not supposed to be a > computer at all, but rather the equivalent of a serial-port card for a > GE-200 system. Nevertheless, it did have full computing capability and I > was running a 4-user time-shared multiprocessing system, supporting > 110-baud Teletypes and IBM 2741 typewriters as terminals. And I did backup > my files on paper tape, also, via a KSM-35 Teletype machine... This was all > some 40 years ago, almost a decade before PCs really took off... > > What did dirt look like way back then in the days before color was invented?
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