> "Hands On"
> is a meaningful expression and what makes ham radio interesting, and
> computers frustrating. 73, Stuart K5KVH
I have to echo that ... I long for the days when men were men and
computers that had not only big front panels, but entire consoles with
register displays and a plethora of switches, and paper tape readers, and
chain printers that could be made to play the Stars and Stripes ... and
Algol ... were the real deal and not just museum curiosities.
... and when best light show is town was the maintenance console on a
B5500 or the entire equipment racks of my favorite machine, described
here: http://www.princeton.edu/~adam/R1/r1rpt.html
Ok, so maybe the paper tape thing wasn't so great :-)
Grant/NQ5T
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