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You Might Be A Computing Old Timer If...

• lzw 16y ago
  Some of these do apply to me. 3- I did have the chance to write programs on punch cards. This was nearly at the end of the punch card era and I only did a couple assignments that way. But it was still another two years before we stopped having the "wait for your printout at central computing to see your results" hassle. 4- One of my first jobs involved loading a boot loader via toggles every morning while powering up the PDP-8. It had a washing machine sized hard drive with removable disks, but had to be set up with the boot loader. The lights blinked when programs ran... good times. 7- Remember the VAX well, and VAX/VMS was the first OS I hacked. 10- A surprising number of machines at the computer history museum were contemporary or objects of lust during my career. I still want a Cray, though its gold value probably keeps it out of reach now. The interesting thing about this article is, I think it was written by an old timer to my generation, and the current 20 somethings are 2 generations further on.