Ahh... them were the days...
Running in to Dixons/Comet, going to the C64's and doing the old:
10 PRINT "DIXONS SUCK!"
20 GO TO 10
... then bolt and watch the 'assistants' panic.
A few years ago the stock taker in my work still use an old ancient
'laptop' I use the term 'laptop' loosely as this thing was as big and
thick as a suitcase! He was using a stock taking program that was
written in Cobol, wasn't even compiled or anything, the file he used
to 'start' it was actually a batch file to compile and run it! He even
had to use old dot matrix printers with the condensed switch enabled
to get the wide Cobol page onto the paper!
I nearly wet myself laughing when I saw his set up and this was
only about five years ago! I managed to get his Cobol app onto a
modern laptop and he was all happy.
In fact, I think I still have my first 486 CPU chip at home, an AMD
DX100 I think it was...
Eee... I remember when this were all fields lad... :D
Quoting Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 13:36 +0000, Sean Miller wrote:
These youngsters, eh? When I started in IT greenscreen was cutting
edge, lol ;-)
My first PC had a mono green text only MDA "video card". I had to
_upgrade_ to a Hercules graphics card.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_Display_Adapter[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card[2]
Those were the days..
It were all trees round here you know..
Cheers,
Al.
Links:
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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochrome_Display_Adapter
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card
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