What the hell has happened to this place?

On Dec 11, 5:44*am, D. LaCourse wrote:
On 2011-12-10 21:58:15 -0500, rw56 said:









On Dec 10, 5:20*pm, Tim Lysyk wrote:
On 10/12/2011 1:59 PM, Tim J. wrote:

Frank Reid © *typed:
On Dec 9, 10:45 pm, *wrote:
On Dec 5, 11:16 am, Frank Reid © *wrote
:

Go on FB and search "ROFF" in the search bar.
Frank Reid

I rather like this place now -- just a few old timers gathered around
a dying campfire.

WHO YOU CALLING OLD!!!

You remember 300 baud modems, floppy disks, and parallel ports, right?
Need
I say more?

I remember punch cards and card readers. As well as all of the above.
Including cassette tape storage.

Tim Lysyk

I wrote Fortran programs on punch cards in 1965. We used the chaff for
pranks -- throw a box of it in some nerd's closet and he'll never
clean it up because of the static charge. Remember the chain-driven
line printers? Remember ferrite-core RAM? Drum drives? Batch
processing? Remember when CDC and Honeywell and Univac were big
players? Time sharing? Dumb terminals? Remember DEC? Minicomputers?
Paper tape? PDP-11?

Remember when the workplace was lit by gaslights?

No, but I remember negro peddlers driving horse-drawn carts in
Baltimore, calling out various wares and services, from watermelons to
knife sharpening. They were confined to the alleyways. And I remember
separate white and colored watering fountains.