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There's nothing that makes you feel old more quickly than seeing someone trying to rebuild the sort of technology you implemented in the era that they were actu
by royjacobs 4y ago
There's nothing that makes you feel old more quickly than seeing someone trying to rebuild the sort of technology you implemented in the era that they were actually modern.
- 082349872349872 4y agoWar story: ca. 1980, before PC meant IBM, there were many teams rolling their own personal computers. In one of which I'm aware, the hardware people attempted to play a practical joke on the software people by swapping the leads on the CRT yokes every once in a while. It didn't pay off though: the software people quickly had a flag in their driver, and just absent-mindedly flipped it whenever they came in and their screen was displaying upside down, then carried on working as if nothing untoward had happened.