[ale] Us Old Fossils :)

[Thompson Freeman]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Danny Cox wrote:

> All,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> > Heh, not so fast there, bro'  :)
> > I'll see that & raise you: 110 (with Fast option to 300 :), acoustic
> > coupler...
> 
> 	Actually, my first programming course at Tech involved FORTAN IV 
> and punch cards (024 AND 026).  This wasn't programming on the bare metal,
> but it was pretty primitive by today's standards.

<<snip>>

Is this a private brawl - or can we throw relatives in as skeletons? 8-)

I'll see your 110 modem and raise you with a programer who has yet to make
sense of macro assembler. (Seriously, he predates the concept of OS unless
I'm grossly mistaken.) Most of his work is supposed to be in a museum (a
great place for fossiles...)

I'm not entirely sure of the other one, but I think his work dates back to
the end of drum memory for core. I gather that the massive 4k core memory
_really_ rocked as state of the art. Rocked the neighborhood, the whole
building...

(I'm a little juvenile here: I started futzing with computers with DEC's
PDP-10 in graduate school, at the end of the product life no less. Long
after they learned to deny a print job of page feeds on the line
printers...since they printed a line or  ejected a page at about the same
speed.)


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You just might be a chemist if -
    you wonder just _what_ the lubricant
    in that condom is made from...

Thompson Freeman    tfreeman at digichem.net
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