< Us: Auntie Allison, tell us about the early days of microcomputing. By then I was an Aunt... < Allison: Well, in my day, we didn't have these fancy GUIs and Plug n Pla Well we did, they were funny to look at so we didn't bother being learned to read write and cypher. < We had to write our own operating systems! And we had to haul ASR-33 Yes and it was fun to do. Even if we didn't have and assembler yet. < terminals across bridges just so we could type in our programs. That is It was only the boardwalk. But it was the pre-betting era so thre were few profitiable things there. < if you were lucky enough to find a terminal! They abounded... uppercase only 1200 baud and expensive!!!! < Usually we had to build our own from lights & switches... Lots of lights... well they were leds and only red ones. Of course that was when homebrewed was self assembled and not referring to a microbrew. The latter was called programming fluid (coffee, beer or Coke). Allison < < Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar@sicon < ------------------------------------------------------------------------ < Always being hassled by the man. < < Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 < See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! < [Last web site update: 12/07/98] <