Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]
On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:37:32 -0500
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Brian wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> Ahh yes, programmable relay logic. Still around, by the way. :-)
>
> Ok, anybody here played with really old IBM card sorters - the kind
> that you programmed with patch cords? (Not me, I might add.)
>
Like an IBM 1400?
'Musing along
Jack
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