Subj : Re: Commodore Computers
To   : McDoob
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 25 2022 07:09:00

-=> McDoob wrote to The Millionaire <=-

 Mc> I guess I'm lucky to have been born into a world where home computers
 Mc> were becoming more and more common. The absolute earliest storage
 Mc> medium I've ever used (tape) was still magnetic.

My high school computer teacher brought in a WANG data processing system, 
and told us all to trust him, we'd want to use it.

It used a punch card entry system. So, we could all say we all started out 
with punch cards.

There's a computer history museum in Mountain View, CA with a working IBM 
mainframe. It's been lovingly maintained by retired FSEs who're recruiting 
kids to come learn the trade. It's great seeing other generations learning 
how to use and maintain old hardware like that - and to understand where it 
all came from.

Every once in a while, they fire it up, enter a job into punch cards, and 
run the job to show how it was done.

My son, watching the process, was amazed at how many people it took to run 
the system.


.... That's what we are to them -- Yesterday's JAM!
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