For 18 miles, uphill, both ways, in the snow!
On 6/22/06, Death Phoenix <originaldeathphoenix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/22/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Neil Harris wrote:
> Arwel Parry wrote:
>> In message
>> <980278fa0606171146h719fef74g2bc6333b4d42e826(a)mail.gmail.com>om>, John
>> Lyden <rasputinaxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org> writes
>>
>>> On 6/17/06, Conrad Dunkerson
>>> <conrad.dunkerson-XfrvlLN1Pqtfpb/ySbbPhw(a)public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, stop... you're making me all nostalgic. I think it all started
to
go
>>> downhill when the modems became
capable of transferring text faster
than
>>>> you could read it (aka 2400 baud). :]
>>>>
>>> By that measure, my downhill was 9600 baud.
>>>
>>> Of course, I jumped right from my 1200 baud Multitech to a 14.4K on
my
> 486. Jump to lightspeed!
>
Some of us started out on 10 c.p.s. teletypes and input our first
programs on paper tape....
Paper tape? Luxury. What's wrong with toggling your programs in using
the panel switches?
(mutters something about the luxury of switches and having to rely on
compass needles twiddling and having to wave magnets, uphill both ways
in the snow)
In my day, our computers and calculators were our fingers and toes. I
could
only count to eighteen because I lost my pinky and big toe hunting wooly
mammoths.
(uphill, both ways, in the snow)
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