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Who's Our President?!? by knepper2000-11-09 09:33:58
  RE: Who's Our President?!? by sushicode 2000-11-09 13:45:15
knepper wrote: >Now, I may only be in my early 20's so I'm not completely up on CS-Geek history - but didn't we as people (CS people) throw out punch cards like 30 years ago! Sellotape (Durex if you're Australian) and hole-punch editing. Paper fluff permanently stuck to your trousers. Handing your cards in to be processed later, because stacks really *were* stacks. Paper cuts from running through the tape. The ability to read binary straight off the paper. Help! I must be older than Sid! Maybe Sid could hand over his data to Pitr on... hmmm... paper tape, perhaps. <aged rambling>Hmmm... happened to me on my first day. Had to borrow a reader from a museum. <\aged rambling> A very surprised museum thank you; I haven't fossilised just yet. But just what *does* Sid do? S.
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