* Stan Goodman
Replace "room full of diodes" with "magnetic core memories" and lots of vacuum tubes and you have it.
Well, when I was a little younger *diodes* were vacuum tubes, consisting of an emmitter and a collector and a lot of heat.
The date is what it is. Hard to believe? I don't know why you are ridiculing it, technology then was obviously not what it is now.
obviously. But that would put you in your mid to late 70's provided you were ~18 when you started "building and operating computers" pre 1950.
I seem to have pissed you off, mostly because you've have a chip on your shoulder from the first.
you cannot and no chip, but perhaps an attitude :^) But then everybody has on of those tooooo.
Sorry.
nope
This thread has gone further than it should have; the problem was and is not worth it.
definitely
Life is really too short. It's over.
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