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What Were the Early Days of PF Like for Members in the Twenty-Year+ Club?
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[QUOTE="DaveE, post: 6849390, member: 644223"] Yes me too. The problem with the "when were you online?" question is in the definition of online. Does it count when I was sending text emails from a mainframe terminal at my first real job with a DOD contractor to someone just like me? I don't think so, at least by current standards. I guess I think "online" means a web browser that can search remote sites. For me that was Spry-Mosaic with Compuserve and an acoustic modem sometime in the early 1980's. It was awful. Punch cards, teletype terminals, programming uP in assembly language, too -- all awful; barely functional. Waiting 10 hours to find out you made a syntax error and can't try again until tonight; getting kicked out of the HS classroom with the only available TTY terminal because your "graphics" output makes too much noise; ironing the punch tape with the only copy of your program that got crushed... -- awful. There's no CNTRL-F to find the cards to replace in the stack. That's why Basic and Fortran had line numbers, a GOTO 220 command made a lot more sense in that environment. -- awful. Anyway, kind of off-topic now. This does explain why I became an analog EE though. [/QUOTE]
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