16 Nov
2000
16 Nov
'00
2:01 p.m.
1978: As a Junior in HS, I learned BASIC+ on a timeshared
PDP-11 running RSTS, connected via an acoustic modem
to an ASR-33. Pissed off the 'teechur' by using the
'chad' for confetti. . .
Wow, that's the first time chad's been used in the context of
computers this week.
Interesting that IBM made those vote tabulating machines used in Fla.
8-)
1989: I get fired from my new job as a sysadmin after only 5
months. Convinced that only masochists (or the mentally ill)
take sysadmin jobs.
True... but they told me I'm too normal to be locked up.
Thirteen years of sysadmin have kept me in the machine room and away
from real people, though.
When I was doing Field Service they actually gave me a razor knife,
hammer and sharp screwdrivers. (Which I used to torture a TU45 that
was torturing me...)
Bill
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