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Whenever I read stories like this, I always look in awe at the white-beards in my building who were around back in the days when computers were machines instead
by eob 16y ago
Whenever I read stories like this, I always look in awe at the white-beards in my building who were around back in the days when computers were machines instead of abstractions.
The Story of Mel -- A Real Programmer comes to mind:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
- jgrahamc 16y agoGo program a microcontroller and you'll grow a grey beard all your own. http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-io.html http://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/just-give-me-simple-cpu-and-few-... The Voyager computers are of similar scale to microcontroller.