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  • J Johnny J

    Richard Deeming wrote:

    5¼" floppy

    Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:

    Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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    Richard Deeming
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    Luxury! We used to dream of having cold gravel for dinner! :-D


    "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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    • J Johnny J

      Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

      Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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      scottgp
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      Sadly, I chuckled. :)

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      • J Johnny J

        Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

        Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
        Anonymous
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        The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
        Winston Churchill, 1944
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        Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
        Mark Twain

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        dandy72
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        I'm old enough to remember seeing the original "[Lee Iacocca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee\_Iacocca) is an autoexec" being used in signatures. (for a timeframe reference, he retired in 1992).

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        • J Johnny J

          Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

          Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
          Anonymous
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          The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
          Winston Churchill, 1944
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          Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
          Mark Twain

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          Leng Vang
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          That's not funny. We used to make a living with those little knowledge. :^)

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          • J Johnny J

            Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

            Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
            Anonymous
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            The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
            Winston Churchill, 1944
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            Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
            Mark Twain

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            Gary R Wheeler
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            Double fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer. (*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.

            Software Zen: delete this;

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            • J Johnny J

              Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

              Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
              Anonymous
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              The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
              Winston Churchill, 1944
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              Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
              Mark Twain

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              theoldfool
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              young whippersnapper... I remember cold start cards.

              If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.

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              • L Lost User

                640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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                Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter
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                Urban Cricket wrote:

                640K ought to be enough for anybody.

                FTFY

                "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018

                "It never ceases to amaze me that a spacecraft launched in 1977 can be fixed remotely from Earth." ― Brian Cox

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                • L Lost User

                  :D Where is config.sys?

                  Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                  Mark_Wallace
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                  Eddy Vluggen wrote:

                  Where is config.sys?

                  Hey! You'a say'a da tings about'a da config'a my systa, an you pay'a da price!

                  I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                  • J Johnny J

                    Are you old ancient enough to find this funny?[^] :~

                    Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                    Anonymous
                    -----
                    The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                    Winston Churchill, 1944
                    -----
                    Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                    Mark Twain

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                    Super Lloyd
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                    Yes! :laugh:

                    A new .NET Serializer All in one Menu-Ribbon Bar Taking over the world since 1371!

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                    • L Lost User

                      640K ought to be enough for anybody.

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                      Mario Luis
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                      Memmaker ftw. Used to hate fighting for memory and trying to run my mouse driver same time.

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                      • G Gary R Wheeler

                        Double fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer. (*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.

                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                        Johnny J
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                        Cool - I love bats. But at 2 am I guess you have other plans... :laugh:

                        Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                        Anonymous
                        -----
                        The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                        Winston Churchill, 1944
                        -----
                        Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                        Mark Twain

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                        • J Johnny J

                          Richard Deeming wrote:

                          5¼" floppy

                          Huh! Nothing! Back in my days, we used 8" floppy disks! AND we had cold gravel for dinner! :laugh:

                          Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
                          Anonymous
                          -----
                          The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
                          Winston Churchill, 1944
                          -----
                          Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
                          Mark Twain

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                          User 11230442
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                          in 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury. The rest of the system was crap. Filled up my car if I took it home to work. Ah. The good old days. ASM all the way.

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                            in 83 I had a cpm system running at 4Mhz with an 8" floppy, But also a 10 MEGA BYTE external hard drive, with removable platters. Luxury. The rest of the system was crap. Filled up my car if I took it home to work. Ah. The good old days. ASM all the way.

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                            JohnDG52
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                            Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                            • R Richard Deeming

                              What is this newfangled "CD" of which you speak? Is it anything like a 5¼" floppy? :-D


                              "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                              ZerqTheMad
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                              At least we no longer have to worry about kinky hard drives that insist on a master slave relationships...

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                              • J JohnDG52

                                Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                                kalberts
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                                I learned my first BASIC using one of those - located in the school's bomb shelter: Huge room with concrete walls, floor and ceiling. Just the right acoustics for a TTY! Down in my basement, I have still got a few of those paper tapes. (I also got a small pile of punch cards. As well as a core dump, in the physical sense: A frame with 1152 ferrite rings weaved together. I have no idea about the contents of those 1152 bits.)

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                                • J JohnDG52

                                  Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                                  CodeZombie62
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                                  We had three teletypes in high school. Connected to a PDP-8 and PDP-12 at the university across town via acoustic coupler. One day someone dumped the hopper full of the holes from the punched tape all over the floor.

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                                    :D Where is config.sys?

                                    Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^] "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

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                                    Harrison Pratt
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                                    Fixed typos: Where's config, sis?

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                                      Floppy? I had a teletype with punched tape.

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                                      Harrison Pratt
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                                      I started that way -- with punched tape, a teletype and remote GE time-share system using some flavor of BASIC.

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                                        We had three teletypes in high school. Connected to a PDP-8 and PDP-12 at the university across town via acoustic coupler. One day someone dumped the hopper full of the holes from the punched tape all over the floor.

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                                        kalberts
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                                        When one of my friends married, we used stuff as a replacement for rice. (The groom was also a computer guy.)

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                                          I started that way -- with punched tape, a teletype and remote GE time-share system using some flavor of BASIC.

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                                          JohnDG52
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                                          Part of my first job - machine code programming a DEC LSI-11 (4K core memory + 16k RAM) to control a tomographic medical scanner and reconstruct the images (using de-convolution and back-projection). Teletype was only for development - working machine just had the core memory.

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