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To: TSgt
I'm not even that old, and I still remember when this was a computer.


74 posted on 09/29/2011 10:17:12 AM PDT by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError

Tiny computer. The ones I worked on were in rooms twenty times larger, with dozens of rows of equipment racks and many terminal consoles. Bluetooth and wi-fi would have been a dream, as wiring was a nightmare, both below the floor and overhead. I remember working on bringing up a new mainframe site. A green engineer used the wrong labeling tape to identify the ends of hundreds of cables under the floor tiles. After a few months, all the labels lost their stickiness and fell off the cables. Instant panic! I welcome the innovations of having these new portable wireless computers!


77 posted on 09/29/2011 10:42:54 AM PDT by roadcat
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