On Tuesday December 26 2006 2:55 pm, James Knott wrote: > > FWIW you got the easy end of the stick - you should have started with me > > on IBM, NCR and Burroughs mainframes in 1984. X? GUI? Mouse? > > Nah, everything was 80x25. We moved up to 80x32 a couple of years > > later. Now that was progress! (a typical airline reservation system > > today will still support the IBM 4505 terminal (the manuals went out of > > print in 1974) which does only 45x15). > > > > > > The oldest "computer" I worked on didn't even have a display. It was a > special purpose machine, made by Teleregister and installed at the > Toronto Stock Exchange in 1952. It used vacuum tubes, relays and a > memory drum. It was older than me!
Man...........that IS old! ;) Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
