Distrowatch

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 06:41 +0100, david wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 13:04 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 22:19 -0400, mario8723 wrote:
> > > Emphasis on 99%. How did I know somebody was going to respond like that?
> > > =D>
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > mario8723
> > > 
> > 
> > <cue: Monty_Python_4_Yorkshiremen>
> > 
> > Aye, well....
> > 
> > When *I* were lad, used to punch out Fortran IV, on mechanical punch
> > keyboard.... carry deck 'o cards to front counter of Computer Centre,
> > *queue* for privilege of using IBM mainframe, and come back *a day
> > later* to find printout of bugs!
> > 
> > XP? OS/2? Win3.1 ? HA! *YOU* were *lucky* !!
> > 
> > </ Monty_Python>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> luxury!
> 
> We had a bag of ones and zeros which we had to lay out on t'ground and
> if we got it wrong father would whip us wi' cat5 cables.


Ones and zeros? You were lucky! Our Mum and Dad would throw letters from
alphabet soup on t'floor and make us write COBOL with 'em before we
could eat 'em!

Had to lick ground clean wit' tongue to debug program !...