Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:09:46 -0500
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>
> > On 02/28/13 11:31, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >>> On Thursday 28 February 2013 16:01:03 Richard Owlett wrote:
> >>>> as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to
> >>>> Debian(tm?),
> >>>
> >>> Why is your seniority relevant?
> >>>
> >>
> >> Just trying to convey that I've enough real-world experience to
> >> have a valid point of reference without heavy handily touting that
> >> my intro to computers was when the common input device was an 026
> >> and core memory involved literal iron. I've been chided before ;)
>
> Pardon me for asking, but what's an "026?"
>
> I go pretty far back myself, to the days of front panel toggle
> switches, paper tape, and ASR33 teletypes (and Frieden Flexowriter's
> for that matter) - but "026" is a new one on me.
>
> Miles
>
It's a car punch machine:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM26.jpg>
Cybe R. Wizard
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