Sure, but at least your input device was the only one talking. Not
entirely true for anyone working in TECO, where a bit of line noise on
the modem connection would be executed as editor commands!
-Tod
Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jeremy Frumkin wrote:
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On 4/3/08 6:51 AM, "Walter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sebastian Hammer wrote:
A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for
cosmic
radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a
pleasing
and functional sequence of bits.
Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four
Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age ...
We used to arrange pebbles in the middle of road into the relevant
patterns (we *dreamed* of being able to afford the wire for an
abacus).
Passing carts would then help "crunch" the numbers.
Walter
for whom graph paper, templates, pencils, 80 column punchcards and
IBM Assembler were formative experiences
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