GearMe
Headphoneus Supremus
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In the 70's I punched machine code for IBM 360 and Burroughs 9000 machines into 80-column cards, spun tape drives for storage and had fun printing out Einstein and Snoopy images using the big chain-drive line printer. Today my phone has 100X the computing power of an entire 1974 room. No, I don't miss it.
HA! Two words...Sequence Numbers
First program I wrote in high school was saved on Paper Tape using a Teletype
First real job...I remember installing/configuring/tuning/etc. state-of-the art disk/dasd strings with boxes as tall as a grown man -- total storage was 10GB.
Far worse though was supporting the earlier models with the Removable Disk Packs
Whoever had that idea...
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