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Article #620716Re: Nostalgia
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:15
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:15
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On 3/1/2018 8:12 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote: > Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: >> On Thu, 2018-03-01, Dan Espen 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 ... >>> >>> I didn't consider a terminal on a 300 baud line slow. >>> Emacs could scroll through a program reasonably fast >>> at that speed. The immediate predecessor to slow terminals >>> was cards. A completely different animal. >> >> Still, you must have been forced to keep more context in your head >> than today? Or did you design everything with pencil and paper >> beforehand? > > Using a decwriter, history was always just up the page. I still > miss being able to go back and see exactly what I was doing hours > earlier :=) > Printing terminals were great for playing Adventure or Zork!!! You could even track back and update your hand-drawn map! -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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