On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 15:12 -0700, James Sparenberg wrote: > Wobo, > A Univac computer for me.. and yes pitty the poor individual who > didn't get the cover seated correctly on the card reader..... Cards > flying everywhere. (Pity them even more if thier cards weren't > numbered!!) The real treat was paper tape readers.... Do remember > watching someone "edit" his code with an xacto knife (couldn't get time > on the card punch machines because of a power outage) by candlelight no > less. That's when I decided to go systems.... no soldering irons and no > knives hehe.
But, you know, all this new shiny notebook and desktop stuff, it's handy and I love testing some new things I learned and sometimes I feel adventurous and do something like installing FreeBSD or some small Linux distro. But it's not the adventure of those times way back when. We may have cursed the d**** cards and the forms we wrote our assembler codes on. We may have cursed the d***** white coats feeling important and whining about computer time all day long. But I felt like a boy with his electric train on Christmas eve. I don't have that feeling with any of our modern computers. Only once in a while, exactly once in a half year when the new Mandrake distro is out! Writing that reminds me of some more translations I have to do until tomorrow for the new distro. Back to work! wobo -- "... and anyway, an html can't carry a virus." (Aug 2001, Usenet) ------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: #128612867 GPG-ID: A69882EE ------------------------------------------------------------------- ISDN4LINUX-FAQ -- Deutsch: http://www.wolf-b.de/i4l/i4lfaq-de.html
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