My mom Got her "data processing Degree" and had to program with punch cards when it was part of the Business College... On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Alan Dayley wrote: > You little youngsters don't know the meaning of hardship. > > Back in my day you got monochrome and 40x25 characters and counted > yourself lucky! > > Before that it was fuzzy white on black with a dumb terminal and a 300 > baud acoustic coupler. > > Before that it was on a dot matrix printer with a keyboard.  Get it > right quick or you waste a lot of paper! > > At least I'm not old enough to have suffered with punch cards or paper > tape or front panel toggle switches. > > CGA was a wonder for about $600! > > ;^) > > Alan > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stephen wrote: >> no i was just 5 when i started >> >> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, >> kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote: >>>>> I remember CGA and its pink cyan vomit... i think i preferred going >>> Jesus! >>> You are *THAT* old? >>> Dirt...  ;-) >>> ET >>> >>> >>> >>> Stephen writes: >>> >>>> I remember CGA and its pink cyan vomit... i think i preferred going >>>> back to ASCII until VGA was out. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss