< Us: Auntie Allison, tell us about the early days of microcomputing.
By then I was an Aunt...
< Allison: Well, in my day, we didn't have these fancy GUIs and Plug n Pla
Well we did, they were funny to look at so we didn't bother being learned
to read write and cypher.
< We had to write our own operating systems! And we had to haul ASR-33
Yes and it was fun to do. Even if we didn't have and assembler yet.
< terminals across bridges just so we could type in our programs. That is
It was only the boardwalk. But it was the pre-betting era so thre were
few profitiable things there.
< if you were lucky enough to find a terminal!
They abounded... uppercase only 1200 baud and expensive!!!!
< Usually we had to build our own from lights & switches...
Lots of lights... well they were leds and only red ones.
Of course that was when homebrewed was self assembled and not referring
to a microbrew. The latter was called programming fluid (coffee, beer
or Coke).
Allison
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Received on Tue Dec 08 1998 - 22:04:08 GMT