Laptop (cell phone) in my pocket?
Lyle Tuttle
L.tuttle at cox.net
Tue Jul 7 23:06:21 MST 2009
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.........
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