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.........