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| From | Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? |
| Date | 2021-02-06 00:21 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <877dnmm4g3.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink) |
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Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> writes: > Ben Bacarisse wrote: >> Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> writes: >> >>>> A group can sometimes be revived simply by posting a question people >>>> find interesting. There are many more people monitoring this group than >>>> you think. >>> >>> I'm happy to see that. I hope young people are here too; sometimes I >>> get a bit concerned about the future of the USENET. Sometimes I get the >>> feeling that the many more people here are all old-timers. >> >> Definite old-timer here. If you've used any digital medium with holes >> in it (for serious work) then you are definitely an old-timer! > > My introduction to computing involved punching cards to feed into a > English Electric KDF9 front end to an ICL 1904 (or 6, I've > forgotten). But I doubt that it counted as serious work 'cuz it was > student exercises of which I recall only one: write a PLAN (the > assembly language) program to print the Fibonacci sequence. Students do serious work! I briefly worked for ICL so I know PLAN, but I never used anything with holes in it at ICL. But before going to university I worked as a programmer on am IBM 360. It did have a few terminals for interactive work, but they were operated only in the afternoons and I rarely used those. The rest of the time it ran punched card jobs. -- Ben.
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Why here are so few people nowdays ? H E <rob99999999999999999@gmail.com> - 2021-02-04 06:30 -0800
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-04 15:18 +0000
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David LaRue <huey.dll@tampabay.rr.com> - 2021-02-05 01:35 +0000
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Boris Dorestand <bdorestand@example.com> - 2021-02-05 14:38 -0300
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-05 20:48 +0000
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Peter <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2021-02-05 22:12 +0000
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2021-02-06 00:21 +0000
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-02-06 07:32 +0000
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-06 15:36 +0100
Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-02-06 15:34 +0100
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