IBM golf ball "Selectric"? Luxury!
My university used to beat me over the head with an abacus made of stone for 25 hours a day, before sending me to do data entry with a chisel at the back end of a cave lit only by burning data-cards, while solving Eulerarian equations for fluid motion using machine-code programming on the ribs of a dead antelope. Try telling that to the kids today! Will they believe you? On 19 November 2011 09:27, Philip TAYLOR <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Keith J. Schultz wrote: > > Me I am almost 50 and have been around computers since the 80s. >> First was a Apple IIe, at the university we used a main frame. >> > > My first computer was a Clary 404, with 8K of magnetic core memory, > a magnetic card reader and/or teletype as input device, and an > IBM golf ball "Selectric" typewriter for output. A 3rd-year > undergraduate, working under my supervision, wrote a chess end-game > solver that would run on this machine and solve end-game problems > in reasonable time. I wonder how many programmers today could do > the same with 125 000 times as much memory (1Gb) ? > > ** Phil. > > > > ------------------------------**-------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > > http://tug.org/mailman/**listinfo/xetex<http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex> >
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