Tsk! And you try telling kids that today and they won't believe you. ;) On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:19:18 +0100 Thomas Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> padawan12 wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:03:39 -0500 (EST) > > Mathieu Bouchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> When I was born, "manual" was all about punching holes in cardboard and > >> feeding it to the card-reader. However, when I actually started > >> programming, "manual" was about having to press Play at the same time and > >> listen to the sound of files recorded at 600 bauds, and pressing > >> Fast-Forward to skip over them, and having to listen to the files to count > >> how many had been skipped over and reading the sleeve to make sure I got > >> to the right file. It was not as manual as splicing tapes though. > >> > >> I mean, one should marvel at how much something like dpkg is automatic :) > > > > > > You lucky bastard. We had suck the air out of vacuum tubes using our own > > breath. > > And we were grateful! > > > > :) > > You lucky bastard! Where I grew up, we had no air and had to live on > anaerobic muscle work ;) > > cu Thomas > -- > "Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police > are effective. They're a kind of job insurance." > (Leto II. in: Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune) > http://thomas.dergrossebruder.org/ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
