[AccessD] OT: I'm old

Rocky,

Tubes?  You had tubes?!  Well, isn't that special?

We had to do without electrons altogether!  Electrons didn't even
exist!  We had to painstakingly carve out NAND gates and XOR gates
into the side of mountains and roll boulders down channels to perform
even the simplest computation.  Then, of course, we had to roll them
back to the top again.  Our system was called the Sisyphus I.

Tubes! Hah!

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI
http://www.NeenahPolitics.com
http://www.TheTownCrank.com

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rocky Smolin at Beach Access Software
<rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> Switches?  You had switches?  Oh, isn't that just grand!!
>
> We had tiny tubes we had to blow through to push the electrons around until
> we got them to where they would do something useful.  Took us all day
> sometimes.
>
> That was REAL programming.
>
> Switches.  Hah! Amateur!
>
> Rocky Smolin
> Beach Access Software
> 858-259-4334
> www.e-z-mrp.com
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>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Don Bozarth
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 6:18 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: I'm old
>
> Ok.... IMSAI 8080 no input device at all.... enter the instructions in
> binary with switches
>
> Don B.