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Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology

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A. K. wrote:

> Am 19.02.2012 10:16, schrieb Paul E. Bennett:
>> Walter Bushell wrote:
>>
>>> In article
>>> <59e870a4-a045-4a92-a641-38bea4b3acc3@pw4g2000pbc.googlegroups.com>,
>>>   Mentifex<mentifex@myuw.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> "IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE COMMAND LINE"
>>>
>>> In my day Sonny we entered programs through the front panel in absolute
>>> octal machine code, no sissy assemblers for us and we liked it.
>>>
>>> See also, and a later more effete time "Mel the real programmer".
>>>
>>> Toggle switches and wiring boards. You haven't programmed until you've
>>> entered patches at least through the front panel.
>>
>> You had switches??!!!! My first programming task required a soldering
>> iron to put the diodes onto the matrix boards. ;>
>>
>> When I graduated to switches (my first 6800 project) my codes were in
>> hand crafted hex (about 4k of the stuff). Then we got to the ASR33
>> teletype and paper tape (when we got clever and wrote the names of progs
>> on the leader). Also liked the way we could programme the magnetic core
>> memory and carry it across the factory to plug it into the system that
>> required it.
>>
> 
> You made my day, Pa!   :o)
> 
> Long-haired students like me tried to do motor control in Forth with a
> SYM-1 board. Admittedly life was easier for us, we didn't use flint
> stones any more.   :o)))

Of each age, people become skilled in the tools they have available. When 
training the apprentices that come through my department I like to get them 
to experience some of the older tools as well so that they can really 
appreciate and properly evaluate the more modern ones.

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Forth based HIDECS Consultancy
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Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Mentifex <mentifex@myuw.net> - 2012-02-17 11:32 -0800
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 18:31 -0500
    Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-02-18 04:52 -0500
      Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-02-18 08:57 -1000
    Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Krishna Myneni <krishna.myneni@ccreweb.org> - 2012-02-18 12:21 -0800
      Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 10:30 -0500
        Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology John Passaniti <john.passaniti@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 15:50 -0800
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Brad <hwfwguy@gmail.com> - 2012-02-17 16:30 -0800
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2012-02-18 05:28 -0500
    Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Mentifex <mentifex@myuw.net> - 2012-02-18 11:15 -0800
      Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2012-02-18 15:44 -0500
        Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 09:16 +0000
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "A. K." <minforth@arcor.de> - 2012-02-19 12:53 +0100
            Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-19 12:47 +0000
              Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 09:12 -0500
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-20 21:43 +0000
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Doug Hoffman <glidedog@gmail.com> - 2012-02-20 18:12 -0500
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-21 23:19 +0000
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2012-02-19 08:27 -0500
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "P.M.Lawrence" <pml540114@gmail.com> - 2012-02-19 06:15 -0800
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-02-26 05:56 +1100
            Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-02-25 23:39 +0000
              Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Jason Damisch <jasondamisch@yahoo.com> - 2012-03-08 19:03 -0800
                Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology "Paul E. Bennett" <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2012-03-09 20:13 +0000
          Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology m II <C@in.the.hat> - 2012-03-29 20:45 -0600
        Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> - 2012-02-26 09:43 +1100
  Re: Don't Fall in Love With Your Technology Hugh Aguilar <hughaguilar96@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-21 17:12 -0800

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