Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Distros specifically designed for children Date: 30 May 2025 18:15:19 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <100ljn1$30vat$2@dont-email.me> <6831b9a7$0$8595$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <6832fab9$0$11442$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <10102st$1j2ov$1@dont-email.me> <10131ao$28rgm$1@dont-email.me> <1015efc$2rf1i$5@dont-email.me> <1017d5j$3aupc$1@dont-email.me> <10197p6$1k6fh$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net d21eKFIphXjyk9NLXdsiTQCmItunJW1qK6CCeF+8mEs5MXPPTq Cancel-Lock: sha1:cSWntfzZyIl637oEKoUEStaFoFg= sha256:EaNioKysBE6h/fOZc1Jqw4egyXiJIQjl0YxBhy2aChs= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68015 On Fri, 30 May 2025 03:54:16 -0400, c186282 wrote: > When I was a kiddie, a teacher took us to the proximate Bell/ATT > facility. It was PACKED with row after row after row of > relay-operated dialer machines. Physically connected one physical > line with others. SO cool to watch ! Ca-chunk, > ca-chunk, ca-chunk the discs would go around in order to connect A > with B - layer after layer. Straight-up wired contacts back then, no > software. Electro-mechanical magic ! Yeah, it worked wonderfully. After my brother moved to Seattle I remember my mother trying to call him on Christmas day. You'd tell an operator what you were trying to do and she would call back when she could get all the relays between NY and WA lined up and ready. It took a while. Then there was the party line...