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). -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998