RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff

Hmmm...I had one of those old Compaq's, too. I was a consultant at the time, and my partner had an Osborne. We'd be going from San Diego to Savannah via DFW, and we'd have to strap those two monsters to a set of luggage wheels and haul a** through the airport to make the connection.

You could have fun with that, y'know. You could gut it and install a SBC (Single-board computer) card into the backplane with a 40G disk and you'd have a nice modern machine - well except for the monitor. But I can imagine bringing that into a roomfull of laptops and watching their users smirk until I fired it up and the lights dimmed...

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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:42 AM
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yeah, my father still try's to impress me with stories of punch cards and
such.  It's pretty funny.  The oldest computer I know of and still have is a
compaq "portable" computer.  It has the old 5 1/4" "floppy" drives and a
little tiny screen.  It's basically a suitcase, weighs about 40 pounds, the
bottom is the keyboard.  Kinda cool, I remember playing games on it as a kid
and thinking it was the most amazing thing.  Now it makes a good foot rest,
but that's about it:)
kk

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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:52 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L


And just think about the PC being an advanced system for some of us.

Wait until we again start talking about using paper tapes and having to use
scotch tape to put them back together to run them through.  Or even the
older guys that talk about switch boards.  I am not as old as them.  My
computer days just go back to the mid 70's.




> I love this stuff(being a nerd wannabe), but I don't have a

> frickin clue

> what any of you are talking about:)

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