Old farts and new Linux (was: new FC1 install problems)

[david]

At 03:53 PM 5/8/2004, you wrote:
>On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 06:36:46PM -0400, Bill Diamond wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 01:05, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
> > >
> > > Me?  In 1958 I was keypunching FORTRAN decks for my dad at age 5.
> > > Played with computers and teletypes and all sorts of fun stuff all my
> > > life.  Began UNIX with Edition 6 in 1978 at Duke, helped with the
> > > establishment of Usenet,  consulted at Bell Labs, did the NYC thing for
> > > a few years, then a few (15) years as departmental guru.  Hit Linux with
> > > kernel 0.94 and Slackware, then RedHat 2.x and have been a RH fan ever
> > > since.  I'm only 50, but I've been a computer user for longer than most.
> >
> >
> > I take it that must have been a bit of a challenge.  I mean, just
> > putting a control card on the drum of the 024 would have been a problem
> > at that height!
>
>Well, until I got a bit taller, Dad would mount the control card, but
>then we got 026 punches. :-)    For somethings they even used a direct
>puncher. (Manually index the card to the right column and punch the rows
>individually!)
>
>My first assembler/machine language program was on a CDC 160A with a
>Frieden Flex-o-writer.  It was an analogue/digital hybrid "minicomputer"
>and had 8 1K pages of memory.  Much more I've forgotten.
>
>This is *way* off topic now, but such fun.

Oh my gosh.  My CDC episode.  Hit the 160A, wrote printer drivers (send the 
A's, then the B's, ...), and a modem (I had to do the byte synchronization 
in software).  Then to the 1604, and 3600 and 6(4|6)00.  It was a good 
place for those years.

David Kurn