At 04:33 PM 7/7/2009, you 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
I am......while the SDS computer system (16K core) ran 5 real-time
experiments on the face of the reactor.......and another x-ray
diffraction counter in another area.......careful!! Don't drop
those!!!
That was a looooong time ago.........