Chris Rowson: > Meh lightweights.... > > My first forage into computing in the 1800's was much more hardcore. > You don't know you're born! > > I would often be called to the analytical machine late at night, > because a tiny misalignment of a brass cog had caused it to render an > ascii image of her majesty incorrectly (thus greatly angering > subscribers of the then pigeon powered t'internet.....).
When *I* were a lad, we 'ad to get up at 3 o'clock in t'morning just to boot up t'computer in time so we could to turn it off again before it were bedtime. Brass cogs? *Luxury!* We 'ad to use our teeth as a punch-card. Then, *if we were lucky,* we'd get a one dot-per-foot print-out, which took three days. If it were wrong you'd have to go back to t'dentist and start all over again. And we didn't 'ave fancy power cables in those days, *oh no*. To power t'computer we 'ad to put t'index finger and t'middle finger into t'back o' t'computer, and t'tongue into t'wall socket. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
