Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 17:07 +0200, Silviu Marin-Caea 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
> > 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. 

Something most people dont know was that the first programmer ever was a
woman and the first computer ws designed in the 1800s.

 
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> Ken Schneider
> UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998
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