[NBLUG/talk] System Message

Nat W. calvin166 at pseudoweb.net
Wed Feb 16 16:29:04 PST 2005


Wow this is really cool, but its sorta scary because my dad did same thing
as you guys, learned to program on paper tape etc. Lets se im just learning
to program now on Linux kernel 2.6 on a 500 MHz dell laptop. Not to make you
guys feel old or anything :p

Sorry if that was insulting, I just found it funny.  Now back to the
reminiscing! 

-Nat W. 
http://www.pseudoweb.net


-----Original Message-----
From: talk-bounces at nblug.org [mailto:talk-bounces at nblug.org] On Behalf Of
Walter Hansen
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:51 PM
To: frankb at frankb.us; General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to
questions,etc.
Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] System Message

I got to do tape programming on CNC mills. Their really big huge machine
that make things out of metal and other stuff. I took the JC classes and
got to write programs on a brand new MS-DOS 3.3 machine and print them on
a paper tape printer. Then you'd walk them over to the machine load them
up and hope you didn't screw up. We'd put a paper on the machine and chuck
up a pen for....







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