Why, in my day we had to go uphill both ways in the snow to school.

Brian Kelsay BLKELSAY at kcc.usda.gov
Mon Dec 8 15:01:53 CST 2003


this old man pissing contest broke out on Slashdot and I thought it was hilarious.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88171&cid=7638743
 
Well, ol' man, back when I was your age, we didn't have monochrome monitors. We had punch cards, 
card readers and a line printer. Yessir.

We had to send smoke signals in through a plastic funnel. Our printer was an old man carving output 
into a tree with a rock.

We had Fortran, PL1, Assembler and JCL.

We had Onetran, PL0, and French.

Try 300 baud thru an acoustical coupler.

Try making bleep noises down a piece of string through a tin can. 0.5 baud if the winds were 
favorable.

The IBM 29 card punch weighed more than [100lbs]

The Sears WonderBox 1900 was so heavy, it needed a special floor. 




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