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I just flipped a bank of 16 switches by hand with vacuum tube gates and core memory...punch cards are for sissies!
by cubano 7y ago
I just flipped a bank of 16 switches by hand with vacuum tube gates and core memory...punch cards are for sissies!
- Filligree 7y agoYou had a computer? Back then I wrote C programs on paper, then executed them by hand...
- nabla9 7y agoOne of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.
- int_19h 7y agoC? All I had was a single book on MS-DOS, so I wrote batch files on paper, then executed them by hand. (Not even joking, by the way - literally how I got into computers and programming.)
- znpy 7y agooh kids! i used to crank the wheel by hand on my analytical engine that my hacker friends and me built after there was a leak of babbage's plans! he never knew! you kids and you petabytes of ram! back in my day.... /s (i'm looking forward for these comments to be commented on a certain website i'm not supposed to name)
- YZF 7y agoyou kids. We calculated with charcoal on the cave's wall while the adults were out hunting for wooly mammoths... ZX81: Z80/1KB RAM... more recently though PIC12 (C501 IIRC) ...
- Sharlin 7y agoI'm slightly surprised nobody has yet linked https://xkcd.com/505/ https://xkcd.com/505/
- BenjiWiebe 7y agoOr https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- golergka 7y agoThere's a website where people make fun of HN comments? Is it Twitter?
- klez 7y agoThe prime directive of said website is to never name it on hacker news. But I'm pretty sure you can Google the prime directive itself and figure out where it comes from. As a hint, it starts with "ng".
- countername 7y agomore hints?
- klez 7y agoWebshit, once a week. I won't go further :)