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RE: OT: Increasingly unrealistic old IT stories WAS Re: OT Home
Highway, is it worth it?
- To: "'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
- Subject: RE: OT: Increasingly unrealistic old IT stories WAS
Re: OT Home Highway, is it worth it?
- From: "James, Daniel" <daniel.james@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:48:50 -0000
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And
thus technology moves on........
its
now the small philipino boy :-)
Daniel
Stone tablets, eh? Hark at "Mr.
Digital"...
When I was first a programmer, the code was a series of
instructions given by the priesthood to the assembled masses, and
carried
out in physical labour in the fields of Sumeria. I remember those who
talked about the introduction of "solid-stone" memory, but if
word-of-mouth replication was good enough for the high priest, it was
good
enough for me!
Results within a day - pah - we didn't know if our
planting algorithms had worked until winter!
Mark
Harrison Head
of Systems, eKingfisher
-----Original Message----- From: Andy
Laurence [mailto:andylaurence@xxxxxxx] Sent: 24 January 2002
15:32 To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: OT Home Highway,
is it worth it?
> > PAH! > > > > I
remember building a 6800? at school... we had to > >
Luxury. > > We worked on a 8085, we used to dream about 6800's.
we > has a hex keypad and 4 7 seg displays. if you keyed > your
code in wrong you got nothing, and had to switch > it off and start
again. Punched tape !
PAH! We had a 3840 where we had to
inscribe
markings on stone tablets which had to be stacked in the correct
order. IT Support was a dangerous occupation back then. If
you
dropped a tablet you could end your career if it landed on your
feet. The annoying thing was waiting for the marzipan to react
with the endotropisco, and the sun to burn the display into
the ground. It could be a day before you realised it had
crashed.
Andy -- PC-Based Multimedia System http://www.andylaurence.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pcbmms
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