Sure, but at least your input device was the only one talking. Not
entirely true for anyone working in TECO, where a bit of line noise on
the modem connection would be executed as editor commands!

-Tod



Tod Olson <[log in to unmask]>
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library


On Apr 3, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Jeremy Frumkin wrote:

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> On 4/3/08 6:51 AM, "Walter Lewis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Sebastian Hammer wrote:
>>>> A true hacker has no need for these crude tools. He waits for
>>>> cosmic
>>>> radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a
>>>> pleasing
>>>> and functional sequence of bits.
>> Alas, having been doing this (along with my partners, the four
>> Yorkshiremen) since the Stone Age ...
>>
>> We used to arrange pebbles in the middle of road into the relevant
>> patterns (we *dreamed* of being able to afford the wire for an
>> abacus).
>> Passing carts would then help "crunch" the numbers.
>>
>> Walter
>>    for whom graph paper, templates, pencils, 80 column punchcards and
>> IBM Assembler were formative experiences
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