Alan Dayley wrote: > > At least I'm not old enough to have suffered with punch cards or paper > tape or front panel toggle switches.
FWIW, I did all of these (glad to have started in Jr High). Learned to type on a card punch machine. Any missed key, and you got a blank card, duped up to your mistake, and continued. Missed keys cost a lot of time. Mainframe console was an IBM Selectric typewriter (with the ball). You had to type in a page worth of commands to boot DOS (IBM 360/44). Video displays were a real luxury when they finally came along. -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
