[TUHS] Re: "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?

- that goes with >>dialing<< the phone and putting it in the rubber cups after you hear the tone from the FSK modem at that other end. - putting your deck into run queue and waiting for your turn to get 5 seconds of compile and 3 seconds of CPU time for a student job - being limited to > .5M of storage (if you had any at all) - If you were an operator - handing a tape change request - starting/stopping the batch system to let students' jobs run - changing the print train - moving a plot tape from the computer to the plotter for output - changing disks - what a disk crash actually sounds like (and looks like on the platters) ᐧ On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:41 AM Marc Donner &lt;marc.donner(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Programming an 026 skip card. Inserting the skip card. > Using ed in kernel safe mode to fix a broken config file. > Threading a half-inch tape in a tape drive. Remembering to insert or > remove the write ring. > Cleaning floppy disk heads. > Manually keying a boot program into an SDS-930. > ===== > nygeek.net > mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home> > > > On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:14 AM steve jenkin &lt;sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au&gt; > wrote: > >> What are the 1970’s & 1980’s Computing / IT skills “our grandkids won’t >> have”? >> >> Whistling into a telephone while the modem is attached, because your >> keyboard has a stuck key >> - something I absolutely don’t miss. >> >> Having a computer in a grimy wharehouse with 400 days of uptime & >> wondering how a reboot might go? >> >> steve j >> >> ========= >> >> 9 Skills Our Grandkids Will Never Have >> < >> https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/06/9-skills-our-grandkids-will-never-have/ >> > >> >> 1: Using record players, audio cassettes, and VCRs >> 2: Using analog phones >> [ or an Analog Clock ] >> 3. Writing letters by hand and mailing them >> 4. Reading and writing in cursive >> 5. Using manual research methods >> [ this is a Genealogy site ] >> 6. Preparing food the old-fashioned way >> 7. Creating and mending clothing >> 8. Building furniture from scratch >> 9. Speaking the languages of their ancestors >> >> -- >> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design >> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915) >> PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA >> >> mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin >> >>