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Old August 3rd, 2001, 12:16 PM

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Default Re: OT = How Does Shrapnel Stay In Business

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

Oh I wish I was part of the "latest generation". To know what I know now and to have the Last twenty years back...

I hope you didn't perceive my comments as some sort of flame. Geo



No problem, I should have paid more attention to the poster name - thought you were under 30. I started out programming in the early 70s with punch cards, paper tape and teletypes. Removable disk packs were new tech! Magnetic tape was king. One of the machines I used had DRUM storage. The PDP-8 had magnetic CORE memory.....

I wish I had been born 15 years later, but you know how much time spent wishing things like that is worth...


[This message has been edited by LCC (edited 03 August 2001).]
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