OK, so as I watch this conversation go by and smile a lot, I find myself 
wondering....

We old folks sure did enjoy the ride during the period of great invention and 
achievement we and our peers participated in.

But I sit here wondering what the youngsters will be reminiscing about forty 
years from now as mid 21st century arrives....

Will they remember what it was like when they had to fly to meetings rather 
than just transport to them?  ( Beam me up Scotty )

And will some of the youngest ones among us actually remember, one day, what it 
was like when they lived back on Earth?

Now that would be cool.....
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On Jul 6, 2011, at 9:15 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> 
> Le 2011-07-06 à 21:11, Patrick Robinson a écrit :
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:50 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2011-07-06, at 6:10 PM, Patrick Robinson wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I remember the first time I saw a DECwriter II, after a couple of years of 
>>>> using a Western Union teletype (with paper tape punch!) that used a 110 
>>>> baud modem with acoustic "coupler" for the telephone handset to connect to 
>>>> the mainframe.  A VT52 would have seemed like magic indeed!  :-)
>>> 
>>> Wow.  I'd forgotten the name of it but I am pretty sure that VT52 is 
>>> correct!
>> 
>> See, _I'm_ so old that I *remember* the name of the VT52.  Chuck, however, 
>> is so old that he's *forgotten* it!
>> 
>> (My wife asks, "Which is older?"  That's difficult to say...)
>> 
>> :-)
> 
> The coolest thing about the WO Community is that even if I'm 35, I'm still 
> younger than most of the community :-) But I did have to use COBOL on a VAX 
> 750 at college... And our lab with the first DEC Alpha stations (no need to 
> activate the heat system in winter with those machines!).
> 
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