30 Jun
2022
30 Jun
'22
9:23 p.m.
- 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)
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:41 AM Marc Donner <marc.donner(a)gmail.com> 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.
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:14 AM steve jenkin <sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au>
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
>
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>
>