Well, I did program great big old bakelite circuit boards with hard wires (seriously!). OTOH, I never did (then) learn to touch type even though I had a job that was, in part, keypunching on Hollerith cards. One time, I typed a J in column 7, which should always be blank, and caused a core dump on the IBM 7040. Should have gotten about 3 pages of output; got, maybe, 700. On Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 2:35 PM null <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Back in MY day, "windows" where what you used to climb into the computer > lab to mess with the mainframe that was off-limits to freshmen! Ok it was > a PDP-4 but you get the point. > > No I'm not bored, why are you asking? > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > > Back in MY day, "debugging" meant picking actual bugs out of the core > memory! > > Also we used core memory! > > > > On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > > > >> Back In My Day if you said "I'm using Linux" people would say "That's a > >> weird way to misspell Minix." #GetOffMyVirtualLawn > >> > >> On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> I think we should start a TCLUG Olde Timers Club (; I'll go first: I > was > >>> using Linux before there were distributions! > >>> > >>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, John Trammell wrote: > >>> > >>>> Ditto. Wendell, do you have any good war stories? > >>>> > >>>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Linda Kateley <lkateley at kateley.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> Wendell. > >>>> > >>>> I am old enough to be impressed by that :) > >>>> > >>>> On 1/21/15 2:21 PM, Wendell Bell wrote: > >>>> > >>>> In my defense, I was writing code, in Fortran and MAP, for > >>>> use on IIT's IBM 7040 back in 1965. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015, 2:06 PM null <tclug at freakzilla.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015, Wendell Bell wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > As for being backed up, I'm accustomed to > >>>> losing all my data with every > >>>> > hardware replacement and every hard reset, > >>>> so this won't be any different. > >>>> > >>>> Oh good lord that is wrong and sad on so many > >>>> levels. That's just no way > >>>> to live! > >>>> > >>>> My friend, you need more than someone helping > >>>> figure out what is very > >>>> probably NOT a kernel issue. You need some > >>>> basic How To Use Computers > >>>> skills. Your life could be so much easier and > >>>> simpler... > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > >>>> Minnesota > >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >_______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150123/9e47391d/attachment-0001.html>