[ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

[Greg K Nicholson]

Chris Rowson:
> Meh lightweights....
> 
> My first forage into computing in the 1800's was much more hardcore.
> You don't know you're born!
> 
> I would often be called to the analytical machine late at night,
> because a tiny misalignment of a brass cog had caused it to render an
> ascii image of her majesty incorrectly (thus greatly angering
> subscribers of the then pigeon powered t'internet.....).

When *I* were a lad, we 'ad to get up at 3 o'clock in t'morning just to 
boot up t'computer in time so we could to turn it off again before it 
were bedtime.

Brass cogs? *Luxury!* We 'ad to use our teeth as a punch-card. Then, *if 
we were lucky,* we'd get a one dot-per-foot print-out, which took three 
days. If it were wrong you'd have to go back to t'dentist and start all 
over again.

And we didn't 'ave fancy power cables in those days, *oh no*. To power 
t'computer we 'ad to put t'index finger and t'middle finger into t'back 
o' t'computer, and t'tongue into t'wall socket.