[ubuntu-uk] memory lane

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Mon Nov 12 22:47:39 GMT 2007


On 12/11/2007, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> You're making me feel prehistoric! I had a C64 for my first personal
> machine, but I'd worked on IBM mainframes for about 6 or 7 years before
> that. Card job control input, data input mainly on card or paper tape -
> our punch room still had an old hand punch in case all the electric
> punches failed!
>
> Dianne
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 17:01 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
> > I was born in '92 but I know that they had a ZX81 with the 16K ram
> > upgrade
> > (fancy :D)... and a BBC. Then they went straight over to a 286 DOS
> > machine,
> > which they then put 3.11wg on. (That 500mb drive still boots, as does
> > windows and Qbasic and SQL Anywhere) Then they went onto a 486 then a
> > 486
> > Over Drive then a Pentium MMX and so on....
> >
> > Just because I wasn't there, doesn't mean I miss anythin'. We still
> > have
> > most of these machines, beauties.
> >
>
> This sounds so interesting to read- the history of these things is so
> interesting- I find the card/paper punch things fascinating. Has anyone
> written an easy to read non-techy history of the computer? Caroline
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