Board:   [DoveNet] Unix/Linux
Subject: Re: How do you use unix?
From:    poindexter FORTRAN
Date:    Wed Sep 18, 2024 07:27

@VIA: REALITY
-=> Rixter wrote to KnightMare <=-

 Ri> I worked at university data center in the 80s and we used the 80 punch
 Ri> cards for student data storage. It was loud and slow.

I started off with Commodore CBM 4032s (similar to a PET) with a
cassette drive in high school, but our teacher brought in an old punch
card data processing system for us all to play with, enter a job on
punch cards and see it run.

We wondered why, he asked us to trust him. Now, I get to say, "When I
started out on PunchedCards..."   :)

Smart man, he was.



--- MultiMail/Win v0.52
 ■ Synchronet ■ .:  realitycheckbbs.org  ::  scientia potentia est  :.
.