30 Jun
2022
30 Jun
'22
7:39 p.m.
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
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9 Skills Our Grandkids Will Never Have
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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
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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