10 Feb
2010
10 Feb
'10
1:11 p.m.
Richard Lewis wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8008.shtml
Now *thats* what a proper IT lession should be like.
What a great piece of film! I started in IT in 1973, on a Honeywell 120. Our interface was an octal keyboard; we had no print console that I can recall, only a line-printer. The way we got data in and loaded programs was via punched cards and tape. I've got some pictures of the old girl somewhere, but I must say that it was quite a bit more advanced than "Nellie", even if it did need a large room and its own electricity sub-station!
Cheers, Laurie.
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Laurie Brown
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