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- From: shore@dinah.tc.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore)
- Subject: Re: Tim Chain Porn (Re: High School Athletes (lusher))
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.041513.5562@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell Theory Center
- References: <1993Jan21.190006.12270@unocal.com> <brsmith.727658272@duncan> <1jnfmlINNojb@spim.mti.sgi.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 04:15:13 GMT
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- In article <1jnfmlINNojb@spim.mti.sgi.com> dauber@tattoo.mti.sgi.com (Jeff Dauber) writes:
- >Well, when I was a kid, you had to boot the machine by flipping switches
- >on the front.
-
- HAH! When I was first started programming, Fortran was
- *brand* *new*. My father used to bring home card decks and
- teach me and my sister to read the holes, and magnetic
- media density was so low you could read tapes by dumping
- fine metal filings on them and see how they stuck. It was
- a time when drum memory really was on drums and programmers
- punched up object decks directly - none of this assembler
- mnemonic wimp nonsense.
-
- Kids. Sigh.
- --
- Melinda Shore - Cornell Theory Center - shore@tc.cornell.edu
-