London School of Puppetry wrote: > On 12/11/2007, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> You're making me feel prehistoric! I had a C64 for my first personal >> machine, but I'd worked on IBM mainframes for about 6 or 7 years before >> that. Card job control input, data input mainly on card or paper tape - >> our punch room still had an old hand punch in case all the electric >> punches failed! >> >> Dianne >> >> >> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:01 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote: >> > I was born in '92 but I know that they had a ZX81 with the 16K ram >> > upgrade >> > (fancy :D)... and a BBC. Then they went straight over to a 286 DOS >> > machine, >> > which they then put 3.11wg on. (That 500mb drive still boots, as does >> > windows and Qbasic and SQL Anywhere) Then they went onto a 486 then a >> > 486 >> > Over Drive then a Pentium MMX and so on.... >> > >> > Just because I wasn't there, doesn't mean I miss anythin'. We still >> > have >> > most of these machines, beauties. >> > >> >> This sounds so interesting to read- the history of these things is so >> interesting- I find the card/paper punch things fascinating.
In the early 1960's I wrote a valentine poem to a female computer operator on a punched card..... :-) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
