[ale] Us Old Fossils :)

[Wandered Inn]

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.

Yeah, me too.  Only it was Lousiana Tech University, 1976.  Fortran with
watfor and watfive.  Punching those cards.  The old joke was, where's
the backspace key to fill the hole in...

> 
>         The first time I flubbed a key at an interactive terminal, and
> the OS responded with "ILLEGAL CONTROL CARD" (yes, they all yelled in
> that day), I just *knew* that someone was about to come and arrest me....
> Ah, the Cyber.
> 
> Danny

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