9 Sep
2017
9 Sep
'17
7:04 p.m.
Amen. There were a number of things that really sucked at the time.
My least favorite: time sharing systems that didn’t allow type-ahead.
Kids these days...
On 9Sep 2017, at 12:34 AM, Steve Johnson
<scj(a)yaccman.com> wrote:
For people used to that world, "echo hello >hi" was literally jaw dropping.
Many people had to have it explained twice, because they literally could not conceive of a
file being created so easily. I had worked in the computing center for a couple of years,
and probably gave more than my share of demos to mainframe users...
Steve