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Article #620702Re: Nostalgia
From: Bob Eager
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:39
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:39
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 21:35:34 +0000, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: >>On Tue, 2018-02-27, Peter Flass wrote: >>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >>... >>>> (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how >>>> programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the >>>> 1980s.) >>> >>> Or a card reader in the '60s. >> >>That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when >>tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers, vi/Emacs, >>troff ... > > Card readers were still being used into the 1980s, well after the > creation of the programs you mention.... Indeed. We got rid of ours in 1983, to make room for a second CPU in thge machine room (to dual with the first). -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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