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Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]



On Fri 01 Mar 2013 at 08:34:57 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Fair enough, but... I have to say it....
> 
> Back in my day, we not only had to walk to school, uphill, in both
> directions, in the snow, but we also had to build our computers by
> hand, from TTL logic gates. :-)

You had TTL logic gates? Boy, you were lucky! We were given relay
switches from cast-off telephone equipment. And we had to buy our
own electrodes and lemons to power the machine.


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