>Some of those old mac features are a bit nostalgic aren't they,
>especially for those of us who've had macs for a significant fraction of
>our lives (1/3) in my case, and cut our computing teeth on machines such
>as PDP 8's, complete with paper tapes, card readers .... gad I must be
>getting old, I can still remember how to use a slide rule.
>
>Tim R
In my youth, I had the ultimate sign of Geekdom - a leather belt
holster for my German-made full size wooden slide rule.
For the science fair one year back then I built a relay-based
electronic game of Farmer-Fox-Goose in a *huge* breadboard box from
Heathkit - come to think of it, my teacher that year ('66? '67?)
discouraged me from pursuing electronic game development, saying that
no-one in their right mind would waste time on such "toys." If I had
only ignored her!
Going up in the years, the other day I uncovered a boxfull of
cassette tape programs for the old Commodore VIC-20 - wonder where I
left that balky tape player at...
--
John McKay (former combat medic, A-1/506th ABN INF "Currahees," 101st ABN DIV)
Military Historian - Social Studies (secondary) Teacher
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