[Ticket#: 2006040510000641] Re: [OT] Articles to read

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Sat Apr 8 07:13:34 EDT 2006


On 7 Apr 2006, at 22:43, Ken Ray wrote:

> On 4/7/06 3:36 PM, "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm so old my first computer was made of cardboard. Heck, we had to
>> 'punch out' the cardboard parts just to build it (and we did this  
>> all by
>> candlelight as electricity wasn't invented yet). We wouldv'e given
>> anything to play with those fancy Hollerith card-punch machines.
>
> Oh, Yeah? Well WE had to walk 35 miles through a raging snowstorm  
> with only
> flipflops and snorkles while juggling crazed rabid wombats and  
> breathing
> sulphur just to LOOK at a cardboard computer!

Oh, you used one of those Apollo boxes too!

All the Best
Dave





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