[AccessD] OT: I'm old

We just used our fingers and if the problem became too complex we took our
shoes off.
Back to basics eh?

Max


-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan
Sent: 07 February 2009 12:29
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT: I'm old

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.
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