I'm happy to say punch-cards were before my time. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

You know, I don't even remember. That was 1978 so maybe it was '77? I don't miss FORTRAN at all, but I do miss programming in assembler which I haven't done in a good 10 years or more. For whatever twisted reason, I enjoyed handcrafting pipelined DSP code.

You do know you don't need an account to change an article.

Hey, we're looking for a guy to do just that where I work. Wanna move to Portland??

This is another example of ppl who has loads of free time to spend

[I just thought that 'interweb' sounded funny]

I'm not very net based in my history; could never afford modems, ISP costs and such when I was a kid (It was all like Weird Science back then anyways). Did used to wonder what i could do with my Speccy though http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...es/biggrin.gif Spectrums were ace... or should the correct pluralisation be spectra?? http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

Britain and America are two nations divided by the same language.... or some such [who made the observation originally; Winston Churchill, perhaps?]

I have a friend who is a systems analyst who now refers to WWW/interweb as the EtherNet.........

Ho hum.

Bill

George Bernard Shaw

Thanks, Jo.