Don Dailey wrote:
Tell me, what were things like way back there in the 70's? My great-grandfather tells me they use wood burning computers back then and 1K was considered an enormous amount of memory.
He had a wood-burner? Lucky guy!
We had to solve all of our computational problems using nothing but
bricks and shoeboxes. A shoebox with a brick in it was a one, and
an empty shoebox was a zero.
Core dumps were really painful and exhausting.
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