On Tuesday December 26 2006 2:55 pm, James Knott wrote:
FWIW you got the easy end of the stick - you should have started with me on IBM, NCR and Burroughs mainframes in 1984. X? GUI? Mouse? Nah, everything was 80x25. We moved up to 80x32 a couple of years later. Now that was progress! (a typical airline reservation system today will still support the IBM 4505 terminal (the manuals went out of print in 1974) which does only 45x15).
The oldest "computer" I worked on didn't even have a display. It was a special purpose machine, made by Teleregister and installed at the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1952. It used vacuum tubes, relays and a memory drum. It was older than me!
Man...........that IS old! ;) Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org