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> On 15/05/2014 1:11 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
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>> $49691$c3e8da3$fdf4...@news.astraweb.com:
>>
>>> On 14/05/2014 3:02 AM, ches...@freeshell.org wrote:
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>>>>> On 14/05/2014 1:45 AM, ches...@freeshell.org wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> you can't get banned from usenet, but only a dozen people use it
>>>>
>>>> Poor Usenet!
>>>
>>> At least you don't need a RedFacedTwit account to use it.
>>> A lot of ISPs , at least those around here, don't include server
>>> access anymore so I don't think many people are even aware of it or
>>> what a newsreader is.
>>>
>>> How many people even know what a DOS CLI is ?
>>>
>>> If it doesn't use a web GUI window it doesn't exists.
>>>
>>> Nobody in here but us curmudgeons :-)
>>
>> CLI? That newfangled thing?
>>
>> When I started programming, you had to know how to thread
>> paper tape into an ASR-33 teletype. Punched cards were a
>> move up.
> 
> Sheer luxury, we had to cut down trees to make the paper for our tape 
> and it was uphill both ways to the forest :-)
> 
> When the boot process involved loading the 'microcode' pinboard it was
> quite arcane, the machine code changed . Microcontrollers still allow
> that. 

It wasn't quite that bad, but we did have use the front panel switches
to toggle in the boot loader which read the paper tape.

(this was a PDP-8e, circa 1971).

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