27 May
2003
27 May
'03
7:02 a.m.
TeoZ wrote:
Put somebody that only knows a keyboard, mouse, and
supervga screen in front of a IMSAI 8080 and they wont know what to do.
No, but they can learn. I do EXACTLY that with a PDP-8/e cpu I drag
around to show at school exhibitions. The first question I get, of
course, is where is the screen and keyboard. I teach the kids binary,
than, with the aid of a small program left in the core we calculate the
mean of a sequence of numbers entered in binary. And not a screen or
keybaord in sight. This demo ALWAYS gets good reviews....
This reminds me ao another story. I was talking with a young colleague a
few years ago, e must have been in his early twenties. We were talking
about old machines and his main question was : "How DID you use thos old
machine without screens and keyboards?". And this from a software engineer!
-- hbp