On 23 Feb 2013 at 13:17, Tim wrote:

Subject:                Re: Custom Partition Fedora 18
From:                   Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>
To:                     Community support for Fedora users 
<users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Date sent:              Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:17:31 +1030

> Tim:
> >> My first computer only had 16k.
> 
> Michael D. Setzer II:
> > Or even older. My first computer was an IBM 1130 with 4K of core
> > memory and punch cards. No monitor, but a typewriter like display.
> 
> You owned a computer that used punch cards?  ;-)

No, didn't own it. Was in High School in mid 70s, but the machine 
was from 1963, but was the only one. 

> 
> I was referring to the one that I owned.  I think that the first
> computer I used was a Data General that used punch cards, the type you
> fill in with pencil rather than actually punch out holes, I still have
> some of the cards.  They're bookmarks in various books about the
> place.

I still have boxes of them, and hand them out to students to show 
how things were done in the old days. 


> 
> -- 
> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
> 
> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
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> 
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