31 Oct
2008
31 Oct
'08
8:03 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Paul Davis <paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 21:42 +0100, Fons Adriaensen
wrote:
you did your thesis on a computer? fancy. ;-)
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:47:05AM -0400, Dave
Phillips wrote:
that was the 2nd computer i used, after one whose name i don't quite
recall. but i do remember going to print my final year thesis in college
and starting it, waiting, doing the calculation and realizing it would
take about 1.5 days to complete.
as they say ... good times, good times. What was your first computer ?
BBC B. 32k ram, later expanded with 100k floppy disk.
My loved one at the time wrote her >300 page degree
thesis on this, printed on a loaned daisywheel printer
using a driver written in BASIC. We used to set up
things to print a few tens of pages and go to see a
movie, hoping the rattling would have finished
without a paper jam when we came back.