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that settles it, I'm quietly packing up my desk and leaving the list. I don't belong here. I vaguely remember working with some of this stuff but not all.
I either:
1)never had a memory for anything 2)was sleepwalking through most of my life 3)am not and was not a nerd 4)all of the above
I think I'll lurk for awhile....
>From: Pat Hildebrand <pat_at_ssc.upenn.edu>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff
>Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:10:25 -0800
>
>I think this is very dependent on one's age and maybe geographic
>location. Okay, I'll start off by showing my age. In 1981 I wasn't in
>high school - my older son was.
>
>I wasn't a ham but back, I think as a pre-teen, we used to make
>"telegraphs" out of a piece of scrap wood, a flashlight bulb, a
>battery, a few nails, a little wire, and a strip of metal cut from a
>tin can to practice Morse code (I don't remember any of it now).
>
>I had to pass a slide rule test in college but in those days so did
>everyone else at Harvey Mudd.
>
>When I saw the question about boot disks I figured that the answer
>would be very dependent on the computer because I know there were
>computers at that time that didn't use disks. However, the computer
>that I got in 1981 required a boot disk.
>
>In fact that computer brings to mind a few other questions from that
>time. Before the introduction of the IBM PC, what was considered the
>operating system for business micro computers? What manufacturer made
>a 5 1/4 floppy drive that used a format with 100 tracks per inch (they
>actually had more data on a single sided disk than IBM had on their
>double sided disk)? What is the difference between hard sectored and
>soft sectored floppies? What did the above mentioned drive use?
>
>Some other questions that come to mind that are not so tied into a
>specific machine are:
>
>What does APL stand for? What was very bad practice in APL that other
>languages use? What was used instead?
>
>What is the language that uses a turtle for teaching children about
>computers? What language was it based on?
>
>Or how about something from the days of main frame tapes that has come
>back to haunt me lately. What is an IBM standard label tape? What
>about it might help in identifying what is on the tape and where it
>came from?
>
>
> Pat
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>Author: Pat Hildebrand
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