<p dir="ltr">Well, I did program great big old bakelite circuit boards with hard wires (seriously!). OTOH, I never did (then) learn to touch type even though I had a job that was, in part, keypunching on Hollerith cards.</p>
<p dir="ltr">One time, I typed a J in column 7, which should always be blank, and caused a core dump on the IBM 7040. Should have gotten about 3 pages of output; got, maybe, 700.</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 2:35 PM null <<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Back in MY day, "windows" where what you used to climb into the computer<br>
lab to mess with the mainframe that was off-limits to freshmen! Ok it was<br>
a PDP-4 but you get the point.<br>
<br>
No I'm not bored, why are you asking?<br>
<br>
On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> Back in MY day, "debugging" meant picking actual bugs out of the core memory!<br>
> Also we used core memory!<br>
><br>
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Back In My Day if you said "I'm using Linux" people would say "That's a<br>
>> weird way to misspell Minix." #GetOffMyVirtualLawn<br>
>><br>
>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, <a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>><br>
>>> I think we should start a TCLUG Olde Timers Club (; I'll go first: I was<br>
>>> using Linux before there were distributions!<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, John Trammell wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Ditto. Wendell, do you have any good war stories?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Linda Kateley <<a href="mailto:lkateley@kateley.com" target="_blank">lkateley@kateley.com</a>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Wendell.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I am old enough to be impressed by that :)<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On 1/21/15 2:21 PM, Wendell Bell wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> In my defense, I was writing code, in Fortran and MAP, for<br>
>>>> use on IIT's IBM 7040 back in 1965.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 2:06 PM null <<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com" target="_blank">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>><br>
>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Wendell Bell wrote:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> > As for being backed up, I'm accustomed to<br>
>>>> losing all my data with every<br>
>>>> > hardware replacement and every hard reset,<br>
>>>> so this won't be any different.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Oh good lord that is wrong and sad on so many<br>
>>>> levels. That's just no way<br>
>>>> to live!<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> My friend, you need more than someone helping<br>
>>>> figure out what is very<br>
>>>> probably NOT a kernel issue. You need some<br>
>>>> basic How To Use Computers<br>
>>>> skills. Your life could be so much easier and<br>
>>>> simpler...<br>
>>>><br>
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