[ale] notepad

[Adrin]

Dude!!

We could have used you about 5 years ago when our PDP-11 crashed for the
last time.
We were forced to upgrade.
Adrin


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Heaven [mailto:robertheaven at mediaone.net]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 6:11 PM
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] notepad

OK, let's show our age here... I can remember inputing code using the
toggle switches on the front panel of a PDP-11/70...

Jim wrote:

> Or, as the geezer-geek would say (in the voice of Dana Carvey's "angry
> old man):
>
> "I can remember when we had to enter our commands in a stone tablet!
> in Cuneiform!! 'Cuz that's the way it was. And we LIKED it!!"
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Swantje Willms wrote:
>>
>>> When was that? I've happily been using Emacs for more than 10 years ;-P
>>
>>
>>
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>> 11 years ago.. :)
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>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, back when we were running 3b2s with 4 meg of memory, we used
>>>> to joke that EMACS stood for 'Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.'
>>>> Funny that joke just doesn't carry the weight it once did....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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