----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.di...@gmail.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 3:08 PM Subject: Re: story of Mel
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: >> I love the wisdom of Allison's remark, that >> what some of us still see as "recent current events" >> is "ancient history" for the youngsters. > > Indeed. That break-point is entirely relative to one's own age and > experiences... for me, "ancient history" is either pre-PET/Apple > II/TRS-80 stuff or perhaps just "8-bit home micros", depending on the > context. > > -ethan ------- My "ancient history" is running a system consisting of an IBM 082, an 085, a 604, a 402 and a 514, the original "sneakernet"; later, after promotion to run the statistics department, a relatively rare 101. Even made the 402 multiply (albeit slowly) when "they" said it couldn't be done; many happy memories... m
