"way back in the 1990's" (was: Re: [ubuntu-women] introduction

[Clytie Siddall]

On 07/03/2006, at 5:05 PM, Claudine Chionh wrote:

> I've been using Ubuntu at home since 4.10; before that I used Mac OS
> X, Debian and (way back in the 1990s :-) ) Slackware.

I think I'm getting old. ;)  I date back to punch-card queues in the  
mid 70's!

It's surprising any of us survived the frustration, really: you sweat  
blood over your program, work it out mathematically as well as you  
can, covering hectares of butcher paper, queue up to punch your  
cards, then queue up again to have your program run ...

and the machine just spits out one card, on the floor: you're  
expected to pick it up quickly, grab the rest of your cards, and get  
out the way. Then you're out of the building and back to the butcher  
paper. No error message. Why this card? What on this card? How is  
this affected by what was on the preceding cards? Do I have enough  
sanity yet to consider repunching more cards and doing more queuing??

It was nearly as hard on the feet (all that queuing, standing up) as  
it was on the patience. ;)

Nice to see you here, Claudine. :) (We've met on Linuxchix.)

General note: I'm not an Ubuntu user. I used to run MkLinux on a  
separate partition, but now I have Mac OSX, after using and teaching  
the use of most machines and platforms, I have it all IMHO. I love my  
iBook, and am currently lusting after the new MacBook Pros, although  
they will have to bring out something cheaper to be in my price  
bracket. ;)

I volunteer to translate for the free software community, because  
free software is essential to freedom of information and access to  
technology in third world countries (including Vietnam).

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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