[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[William Sutton]

Adding to the younger-but-older stories.  I was born in the mid-70's.  I 
remember the punch cards, cradle modems, and line printers where my father 
went to school.  In fact, I actually used the punch cards myself (for 
bookmarks :-D )

-- 
William Sutton


On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:

> I'll add to the young guy stories.
> 
> I was born in 1979 :). My first computer was a Commodore 64. In high
> school I had a 486/66DX. My first experience on dialup was with a 14.4k
> modem on Compuserve when they gave you a obnixious address like
> 123512956128935628.2731 at compuserve.com. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
> Behalf Of jbrigman at nc.rr.com
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:26 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: [TriLUG] Old Guy Stories
> 
> I can't top the old guy stories, but I can provide the dot at the end of
> the sentence:
> 
> The "ADDS 4" terminals replaced/supplemented the card readers at NCSU,
> sometime in the late 80's. Through a crook of fate, I had to take the
> last semester of the last IBM 360 assembly language class at NCSU. That
> was in 1990, the year Paul mentions. The ADDS terminals in the bottom of
> Daniels were the common access mode at the time, (I think the Rainbows
> arrived in 1991?) and there were still long lines, even on Friday night,
> to get to the terminals. The two remaining cardpunch terminals/readers
> were always empty. So I bummed a box of cards from a roommate and used
> the keypunch terminals. I never had to wait in line for a terminal, and
> the assembly language programs we wrote were small enough that using
> cards was no big deal.
> 
> The following semester, I felt the irony of happening by just as those
> keypunch terminals were being wheeled out of Daniels by the physical
> plant, displaced by the impending renovations. It was one of those rare
> and bittersweet moments when one got to witness the actual turning of
> the technology. 
> 
> By that time, I was screaming along on a C-64/80 Column Card and using
> the dial-in modems. Working at home, HiU (Homework in Underwear) mode
> became de rigeur. Nary a moment of nostalgia for the old days.
> 
> JKB
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Paul Jones <pjones at metalab.unc.edu>
> Date: Thursday, February 8, 2007 4:11 pm
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] visiting Red Hat HQ
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> 
> > we're playing the old guy game now. .......
> > i came to unc in 1977 the 360/75 was still there. so was tucc. 
> > until 1990. 
> ...
> > http://www.lib.duke.edu/archives/holdings/campus/tucc.html
> 
>