Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Feb 7 06:28:31 CST 2009
I did it like this: http://xkcd.com/505/ On 7 Feb 2009 at 5:35, Steve Erbach wrote: > 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 > > www.bchacc.com > > > > > > > > -----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. > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com