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4 years older than the author, learned to program on a Philips P2000. Was impressed when my dad told me how they punched cards and he could read punched tape qu
by lazyjones 7y ago
4 years older than the author, learned to program on a Philips P2000. Was impressed when my dad told me how they punched cards and he could read punched tape quickly.
Now I'm finally getting old apparently because I don't use VR stuff, Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok (don't use Twitter because it's such a waste of precious time).
By the way, computer UIs are still too slow. Fix your web pages / networks.
- fuzzfactor 7y agoPunched a number of cards in pursuit of natural science, never did get to Fortran77 since it wasn't 1977 yet. On a new W98 PC after reverting to a more optimized W95 install without including Windows Networking, using a top hardware modem on a clean POTS line having full 56K performance, the snappy user response sometimes seen today with broadband at sites like Ebay, Amazon & Yahoo, was usually outmatched by almost all sites at the time, and that was with only a 100MHz Pentium, 32MB memory, and less than 1GB HDD. You could generally browse faster on dial-up (once logged in) than you can on broadband today. Downloads OTOH were dramatically slower with such a limited data rate. Nice MIDI was also standard on all consumer PC's, without USB latency.