On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 11:03:39 -0500 (EST) Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
When I was born, "manual" was all about punching holes in cardboard and feeding it to the card-reader. However, when I actually started programming, "manual" was about having to press Play at the same time and listen to the sound of files recorded at 600 bauds, and pressing Fast-Forward to skip over them, and having to listen to the files to count how many had been skipped over and reading the sleeve to make sure I got to the right file. It was not as manual as splicing tapes though.
I mean, one should marvel at how much something like dpkg is automatic :)
You lucky bastard. We had suck the air out of vacuum tubes using our own breath. And we were grateful!
:)