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To: Salamander
Eh, I'm at the point now where I hardly use a PC at home anymore. I look at them all day, not a whole lot of interest there in the evening.

I manage somewhere around 300TB for my company. Always astonishes my Dad, who grew up in the IBM Mainframe world of the 70s....just a few years removed from punchcards.

149 posted on 01/19/2009 7:58:56 AM PST by wbill
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To: wbill

Everyday I tell myself I’m sick of ‘em...then some new technology or software shows up and that’s that.

[Al Pacino: “I keep tryin’ to get out but they keep pullin’ me back in!”]

If I HAD to work them, then I’d probably feel as you do.

Back in the 70s, I went to Norristown PA with my boyfriend’s family to visit his sister.
She worked for a data company and the “computer” took up the whole room and there were boxes of punch cards *everywhere* with lots of people diligently rifling through them.
I had absolutely no idea what they were doing.

[that memory always makes me think of the old movie “Colossus: The Forbin Project”]....;D


150 posted on 01/19/2009 9:53:46 AM PST by Salamander ( Cursed with Second Sight.)
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