On Sun, 11 May 2014 15:13:21 +0900 Joel Rees <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Joshua Anthony > <[email protected]> wrote: [clip] > > I confess to much ignorance of technical detail - despite 45 years > > as a computer support engineer, programmer and technical writer, I > > still find a lot of stuff hard to grasp. ie. I am old and lazy and > > think GUI is a gift from heaven. So would you, if you'd started out > > punching ten words of machine code onto paper tape in order to > > start up a mainframe system - long before there was any form of > > visual display. > > Hey can we start one of those those threads? I think the > teletype/paper tape terminal we used in high school to interface with > the IMSAI box we built. (Much gratitude to a teacher who used a lot of > his own money to make that possible for us.) So you've got me beat by > about ten years. But, yeah, Univac 1100 with punched card readers and > less main memory than my M6800 prototyping board, my first year in the > community college's EDP courses. IBM System 34 at my summer job. Oh, there we go! I was late to the party, so my first computer was a Heathkit ET6800 Microprocessor Trainer: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200610/200610.htm#_Computers_Ive_Known_and_Loved SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140511104147.4339b932@mydesk
