Hah! Good one! I go that far back, but didn't mention it because we were talking about hard drives.
I'm sure you used 80 col cards to be read to punch the holes in your re-assembled tapes too… Of course, that was long after the wooden pencil and lined paper were used as data storage. In that form, we still have data that goes back hundreds of years, and still readable. Not to mention cave paintings and Egyptian cuneiforms that go back much further. No hard drive around today will work in 400 years, and probably cannot be read if it does. On Feb 1, 2013, at 20:49 , Bob Sullivan wrote: > Ya, you young wipper-snappers have it easy. > In my day, our mass storage device was paper tape or > a cassette recorder from Radio Shack. > Plus, we were so poor we had to save the holes from the tape and > glue them back in so we could re-use the tape. > Regards, Bob S. > > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh gawd. Another thread where everyone can rehash how much of a >> computer old-timer they are. Oh joy. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
