[Grovenet] Ah, the good old days of computing . . . .

[Dick La Jeunesse]

Ah yes .... the "old days"

Some of us older-sters remember the very first "minicomputers" the used tiny little magnetic donuts for memory - all 8k (as in kilobytes) of it.  We used to really program in those days - in machine code through switch-registers (in octal).  We really got excited when the first punched tape readers came out - way before the revolutionary floppy disk!



Dick
(better older than old)

Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:07:07 -0800
From: rab at jurislex.com
To: grovenet at rdrop.com
Subject: [Grovenet] Ah, the good old days of computing  . . . .








Here are a few stories of what the earlier days of
working on the computer help desk looked like:



http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tr/downloads/home/dl_10_clueless.pdf



bob "just playing around for a few minutes" browning

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