[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[Craig Taylor]

Anybody else who was born in the '70s ever use their father's punch
cards to build card houses? I found that they were much much better at
supporting my larger structures and hung onto a whole stack of 'em for
about 7 years before they faded out of where I put them... (got lost /
stopped caring).

At high school before the Apple ]['s came in we used a teletype that
was hooked up to NCSU where we could run a bunch of programs whose
main purpose I believe was to waste paper.

I used to know all of the chip-level details (what each chip did),
memory space, cycle counts etc for the Commodore. Now things have
gotten so complex and only standardized through driver interfaces that
I miss the chip-level type programming that you could do...

On 2/8/07, William Sutton <william at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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