On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:23:09PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 08:14 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Acoustic or direct connect? I remember thinking what hot shit I > was because I didn't have to jam a headset into an acoustic modem > like a lot of other people did. > > hey, it was cool just to be able to use the computer from some place *else*. really, any place else, even if it was with a 110 baud acoustic modem and a clatter-banger drumhead teletype. At least it was freedom from the keypunch room full of 026's.
Of course, the keypunch was the true first object oriented programming tool :) I had tons of reusable code objects, wrapped in rubberbands, filed in cabinets :) Fortran made it nice and easy to re-tool the subroutine statements for different uses... Eeek! guess that dates me ... -Dorn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
