[THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
- From: "Nick Smith" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:05:21 +0100
I used punch cards as fortress walls. Given that my mum had to book
mainframe access like a month in advance, she was *not* very happy to
see me doing my walls of Jericho bit with them the night before her
access day.
Nick
-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 23 June 2006 09:20
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
And before that - if you were lucky - maybe saving to cassette tape.
I even used punched cards in my early days with mainframes.
Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DMelczer@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: 22 June 2006 19:41
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
> All this nostalgia talk makes me hearken back to my old Apple ][e
> days...
>
> Hard drive? What's a hard drive!?! We wrote everything to 5.25"
> floppies!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Braebaum, Neil
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 12:07 PM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
>
> I seem to recall having to mess around with pins on a pentium CPU a
> few years back!
>
> Neil
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nick Smith
> > Sent: 22 June 2006 16:52
> > To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: Microsoft Certified Architect Program
> >
> > Oh dear, I feel a Yorkshire man sketch coming on.
> >
> > However, scariest upgrade of my life was upgrading my Mum's
> Amstrad PC
> > from 512kb to 640kb. The upgrade came on, I think
> > 16 pieces of silicon, which had 8 legs each. Break one of
> the legs and
> > you had to junk the lot. Bending back one of the legs I
> bent was truly
> > scary.
> >
> > And the reason for the upgrade was that I had pestered my mother
> > because Bard's Tale (Maybe 2?) needed 640kb to run.
> > God only knows how much it cost.
> >
> > Aye, young people with their DIMMS...
> >
> > Nick
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