24 Oct
2024
24 Oct
'24
2:54 p.m.
> dialog (1966), Compuserve (1069), The Source
(1979, so a tie), and
> Community Memory (1973, but not dialup), and probably a few lesser ones
> preceded CBBS.
On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
Come on, Fred. You're old but you're not that
old, and I don't think there
were computers back in 1069. At least I don't think there were.
Yes, that was a typo (adjacent keys).
But long ago, people hired to do arithmetic were called "computers" :-)
or at least "calculators"
But, even so, I doubt that the vikings who discovered America, nor king
William the Conqueror (subjugating Northern Englan), nor Romanos IV
(attacking the seljik Turks) did much arithmetic.
They were still reeling from Y1K.
Stonehenge wasn't portable, or at least Belafon the systems analyst said so.
Antikytheran devices were in very short supply.
And, it was more than 500 years before the Pascaline (developed by Blaise
Pascal), Napier's Bones, or slide rules.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com