Now thats classic.
I worked for three months in USFK Ration Control on a project. All sales recorded were tabulated in a giant xard reader.
I built my first PC from oarts from the PI, Hapan, Taiwan and Korea in 83. Th motherboard was Apple IIC but I ran DOS. It was a complete a complete bastardization.... it could talk, print, etc. I never knew I would finish my career as a COMSEC manager, and Govt communications exoert. My certifications in Intelligence and Sats, phone exchanges, radio, PTT, DISA Cloud and lo g haul com systems or programming. One if a few with a COMSEC TS desigation among others.
I totally love bits, bauds, soder.
There seems to be a pretty large group of 70s nerds here. We have the need to take things apart and build our own. We share a bond with tinkerers who do the same with cars, motorcycles, guns and pretty much anything that can be modified, including computer programs. I’ll bet most of them can be found in the Usenet archives as well.