[TriLUG] Old Guy Stories

[Jim Ray]

Only the teachers were allowed to use the perforated paper tape storage in
high school before the 8" floppies came out.  We students had to type in
code each time we ran something.  We had really, really short programs :-)

Regards,
 
Jim
 
Jim Ray, President
Neuse River Networks
tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772
http://www.Neuse.Net
 
Connecting You to the World since 1997
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Jon
> Carnes
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 4:20 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Old Guy Stories
> 
> Paul and I are contemporaries... except I came off to NC State. My high
> school in Fairfax had better computing equipment than was available at
> NCSU (or at least available to the students of that time). I remember
> actually toggling in a program using bit counters - and getting good at
> it... :-)
> 
> At least in High school we had teletypes using big yellow reams of paper
> AND fancy-schmancy paper punch tape readers... Those were the days when
> you couldn't help but read core memory and see plain text
> username/password pairs just floating around in undeclared variables.
> 
> Jon
> 
> > ----- 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
> >
> 
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