[extropy-chat] man man

[Michael M. Butler]

Welp.

WE had it HARD.

WE didn't even have ones *and* zeroes. We had to cobble ones out of
piles of zeroes squasht 'til flat and tilted up on t'sides like.

AND there was only one way to get the binary into the computer--we
pushed the bits down the wire with our FINGERS 'til they were RAW an'
BLEEDIN' (the fingers, mind, not the bits)... Like choking a baby
python on peas, it was. You'd see the bits goin' down and the wires
would convulse for a spell, and eventually the answer would barf back
out on a single wee grain-of-wheat lamp. Classic Morse code it was,
1850s-style, none'a yer fancy International Morse, thank you very
much.

But we were HAPPY.

On 1/25/07, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Damien Broderick
> >
> > At 08:33 PM 1/25/2007 -0800, Spike wrote:
> >
> > > > Person B:  man man
> > >
> > >Fred, soon none of the younger geeks will get unix jokes.  {8^D
> >
> > Ha1 You Unix dweebs had it easy! Back when I punched Hollerith cards
> > for a mainframe, we zeroed registers with a comic book command, ZAP
> > (zero add packed).
> >
> > Damien Broderick
>
> Luxury!  I remember back when the operand-1 (b1+d1) was first initialized.
> Damien you youngsters today have it easy with your mod ZAP.  When I was
> young, the base register was still acidic and the displacement was measured
> in honest cubic inches, not this sissy ddd1 and ddd2.  Oh but we had fun.
>
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-- 
      Michael M. Butler  :  m m b u t l e r  ( a t )  g m a i l . c o m

'Piss off, you son of a bitch. Everything above where that plane hit
 is going to collapse, and it's going to take the whole building with it.
 I'm getting my people the fuck out of here."
   -- Rick Rescorla (R.I.P.), cell phone call, 9/11/2001