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Nov. 18th, 2003 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI just walked through a door that is being held open by a computer. (Not the one named "doorstop", however.)
We joke about that sort of thing, but I don't think I've actually seen a computer doorstop since my CMU days. Mmmm... Perq -- doorstop and space heater rolled into one! :-)
(The Perq was a fine machine for its time; I had no complaints. Some projects tended to use machines far past their times, however, and that can be more challenging.)
We joke about that sort of thing, but I don't think I've actually seen a computer doorstop since my CMU days. Mmmm... Perq -- doorstop and space heater rolled into one! :-)
(The Perq was a fine machine for its time; I had no complaints. Some projects tended to use machines far past their times, however, and that can be more challenging.)
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Date: 2003-11-18 08:43 pm (UTC)I did my first (Basic) programming on the Commodore PET (and PAL) at UMass. Later I played around a bit on the UMass mainframe (a Cyber?), and then a PDP-11. Ah, fond memories... (Actually on the PDP-11 I was more into writing content than programs, although I did some of that too... including an attempt to find the highest prime number, and a little batch job that sent a terminal message to Scott Stathis every 2 minutes and then resubmitted itself...