Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?

[Bob Elzer]

Control Data Institute 1978

Punching cards, reading tapes, Cobol, and memory the size of the room. Where
you could look into the core and see the little cores flipping back and
forth on the wires.

I have pictures too.
 

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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Stephen
Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 4:38 PM
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Subject: Re: Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?

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<alandd at consultpros.com> 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<cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>> no i was just 5 when i started
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM,
>> kitepilot at kitepilot.com<kitepilot at 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.
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rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.

Stephen
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