And also this thread has gone offtopic :-)

On 07/lug/2011, at 14.20, Joel M. Benisch wrote:

> And engage an actual human operator to help you get it connected as well?
> 
> Joel
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> On Jul 7, 2011, at 3:25 AM, Simon wrote:
> 
>> my eldest son (6) finds it amazing that people used to have to find and then 
>> stand in a "phone box" to make a call...
>> 
>> simon
>> 
>> On 7 July 2011 02:30, Joel M. Benisch <[email protected]> wrote:
>> OK, so as I watch this conversation go by and smile a lot, I find myself 
>> wondering....
>> 
>> We old folks sure did enjoy the ride during the period of great invention 
>> and achievement we and our peers participated in.
>> 
>> But I sit here wondering what the youngsters will be reminiscing about forty 
>> years from now as mid 21st century arrives....
>> 
>> Will they remember what it was like when they had to fly to meetings rather 
>> than just transport to them?  ( Beam me up Scotty )
>> 
>> And will some of the youngest ones among us actually remember, one day, what 
>> it was like when they lived back on Earth?
>> 
>> Now that would be cool.....
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>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>> 
>> >
>> > Le 2011-07-06 à 21:11, Patrick Robinson a écrit :
>> >
>> >> On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> On 2011-07-06, at 6:10 PM, Patrick Robinson wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> I remember the first time I saw a DECwriter II, after a couple of years 
>> >>>> of using a Western Union teletype (with paper tape punch!) that used a 
>> >>>> 110 baud modem with acoustic "coupler" for the telephone handset to 
>> >>>> connect to the mainframe.  A VT52 would have seemed like magic indeed!  
>> >>>> :-)
>> >>>
>> >>> Wow.  I'd forgotten the name of it but I am pretty sure that VT52 is 
>> >>> correct!
>> >>
>> >> See, _I'm_ so old that I *remember* the name of the VT52.  Chuck, 
>> >> however, is so old that he's *forgotten* it!
>> >>
>> >> (My wife asks, "Which is older?"  That's difficult to say...)
>> >>
>> >> :-)
>> >
>> > The coolest thing about the WO Community is that even if I'm 35, I'm still 
>> > younger than most of the community :-) But I did have to use COBOL on a 
>> > VAX 750 at college... And our lab with the first DEC Alpha stations (no 
>> > need to activate the heat system in winter with those machines!).
>> >
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