[ale] notepad

[Geoffrey]

Okay, I'm calm now.  How about a teletype with a keyboard, accoustic 
coupler and paper printout.  Had a tape punch on the side you could use 
to program a more advanced pdp if it had the reel to reel...

Robert Heaven wrote:

> 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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