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Geee ... Linda, I haven't heard a word from her for more than 25 years. I had almost forgotten her completely.
Or for that sake, that Lovelace girl. She's been quiet for a number of years as well.
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And you walked several miles to work each day, uphill both there and back?
Da Bomb
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Of course. In the driving snow. On our knees. Over broken glass.
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TWICE a day in my case, actually! I went home for lunch... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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At least we no longer have to worry about kinky hard drives that insist on a master slave relationships...
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640K ought to be enough for anybody.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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A 360K floppy should be big enough for any app and it's data!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Urban Cricket wrote: 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
FTFY
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Memmaker ftw.
Used to hate fighting for memory and trying to run my mouse driver same time.
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Guilty
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Sadly, I chuckled. 
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I'm old enough to remember seeing the original "Lee Iacocca is an autoexec" being used in signatures.
(for a timeframe reference, he retired in 1992).
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That's not funny. We used to make a living with those little knowledge. 
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Double fun for me since (1) I'm old enough to get the joke and (2) my house is old, so we get bats inside(*) late every summer.
(*) They sneak in via our screened-in porch. I get to catch them and release them outside, usually at 2:00 a.m. after being woke up by SWMBO.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Cool - I love bats. But at 2 am I guess you have other plans... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Back when my daughter lived at home, it was great fun having two women shrieking at me at 2:00 a.m.
Software Zen: delete this;
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young whippersnapper... I remember cold start cards.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Yes!
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"You need to move your mouse driver into XMS "
Where there's smoke, there's a Blue Screen of death.
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Bat your sweet donkey I am.
If you're lucky one day you will get old too.
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I remember booting VAX/VMS 11/780 from an 8-inch floppy.
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I started from booting IBM XT with 5.25" But I'm happy with that! Now I know that Windows 95 is Windows 3.1 inserted to autoexec.bat
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My first paid job with computers: A summer job before I started my C.Sci studies, fall of 1978, one of my tasks was to puch paper (or rather: mylar) tapes for software distribution to customers. We even used tape made from aluminum with plastic coating on both sides - edges were sharp as a knife, and if you were in need of a rope, you could be helped by that material. I guess it could withstand most acids as well.
My superior bictched about this silly semiconductor memory that lost its contents when you turn off the power. No, that technology will not last long! Every serious computer has ferrite memory that can survive a power down!
Punched tape was produced on one of the modern machines, no ferrite memory. So every morning I turned it on, flipped the 16 switches, deposit, flipped again, deposit, ... a mini-bootstrap of about a dozen instructions, enabling it to read the in the "real" bootstrapper from a meter long paper tape. That bootstrapper was so fancy that it could read the reel of tape containing the tape copy program (or a compiler, or software for a welding robot or A0 size pen plotter). And then it was ready for reading in the tape to be copied...
We didn't have a dedicated machine for tape duplication; then we could have left it on overnight. There was no simple way to see which program was loaded - a compiler, a control program or the tape copier - so flipping in the mini-bootstrap to read the bootstrap tape to read the tape copy program became a routine operation you did without thinking of it.
Even though I like to think back to those days, it would be a lie to say that I long back to those days!
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