Anders Johansson wrote:
On Monday 07 November 2005 01:49, Allen wrote:
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:08:29AM -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 19:57 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> Anyone here remember 8" floppies? Hard sectors? CP/M? Yup. Used them at a shop I worked at to supply CNC data to a milling machine that was running concurrent dos. My first computer was a typewriter and it used to store data on sheets of paper.
Can you kids imagine that? I think we had those in HS back in 1979. They were IBM dancing ball. You had to hand calculate hyphenation and spacing in order to justify
On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:07 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: paragraphs and pages. Actually I think the first computer I used was called a slide rule, back in high school, as there were no 'computers' then (late 1960's). Yes there was ;)
Eniac was what 194x something.
1944 I think
But don't forget Konrad Zuse (not to be mistaken with suse) who made the first ever digital computer, completed in 1938
Something most people dont know was that the first programmer ever was a woman and the first computer ws designed in the 1800s.
Yes, Linda Lovelace had many talents
Last I heard, she was into "acting". She also hid her age very well. ;-) Perhaps you meant Ada Byron "Lady Lovelace"? http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm