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"Many did not have any kind of display or graphical user interface on their machines and were essentially working blind until the plotter produced the piece."
by mysterydip 3y ago
"Many did not have any kind of display or graphical user interface on their machines and were essentially working blind until the plotter produced the piece."
I don't know if I would have had the patience for computer work back in the day. Today I'm so used to "make a small change, hit compile/run to see if it worked" I couldn't go back to such constraints.
- LaundroMat 3y agoI often wonder about this. As a kid, I had enough time to sit and wait until the cassette tape stopped loading. Later, when I started experimenting with assembler on my Amiga, my try,crash,retry from scratch style didn't put me off. Information was hard to find too, so I spent an enormous amount of time prodding the system to see what would happen. But what about parents back in those days? How were they able to get anything done on a computer with only a few hours (at maximum) to spend on it a day?
- HellDunkel 3y agoAs far as i remember most did not get much done in a practial sense as the computer was mostly occupied by the kids. My uncle was using word perfect which was a bit of an improvement to the typewriter though but then again he did not have kids. :)
- beaugunderson 3y agorunning it in your mind becomes quite a useful skill!