-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-07-17 at 02:47 -0400, Brian K. White wrote:
I've heard descriptions of card access memory from a partner in my company, Howie Wolowitz, who wrote the first versions of filePro (before that, profile, and before that it was "electric file clerk") for Tandy and worked in all manner of banks and things way way back.
I'm not sure if I'm glad, or crushed that I missed out and never had to/got to work on such a horrific contraption.
If you lived the times, you'd simply be amazed at the advancement from adding machines made of gears, and rooms filled with accountants. And they will keep coming. :-)
Can you imagine? A huge crazy looping spaghetti continuous running stream of paper cards as RAM?
ROM. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIfz2itTMYHG2NR9URAs1FAJ4uEwTDrmhnC/sSj2wcbb8DxIiapACgmMpW w3MFRasDqUUJGN81wC19msE= =btfE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org