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Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ?

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From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject	Re: Why here are so few people nowdays ?
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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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