Alan Dayley wrote:
>
> At least I'm not old enough to have suffered with punch cards or paper
> tape or front panel toggle switches.
FWIW, I did all of these (glad to have started in Jr High).
Learned to type on a card punch machine. Any missed key, and you got a
blank card, duped up to your mistake, and continued. Missed keys cost a
lot of time.
Mainframe console was an IBM Selectric typewriter (with the ball). You
had to type in a page worth of commands to boot DOS (IBM 360/44).
Video displays were a real luxury when they finally came along.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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