Gregory's Server@stux Feeling old now because I lived through that era as a (young) computer user ...
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  @cstross @veronica @stux Oh wow. I still had those floppy disks in the late 1980s and early 90s. Our math teacher had written a learning program for us that he handed out on 5.25" floppies. :) And I was lucky enough to write my first articles for the students' newspaper back at school using some text program running on DOS. :)  @sbi @veronica @cstross @stux My very first computer was the Elektor SC/MP kit that I had to buy piecewise and solder myself. https://www.elektormagazine.com/magazine/elektor-261/60700 My verst first *working* computer π was the successor of the famous PET2001.   My grandma was doing her MA in my earliest memories, and she used to grab boxes of used punch cards for scrap paper; the world was littered with them. I didn't know what they were till much later, but in case anyone's ever wondered where all those punched cards ended up, they were notes and crafts and bad paper planes, and every one was loved and cherished. I was the nerd on the school computers every lunch and recess till they got me a C64.  @jpaskaruk @cstross @stux |
@cstross @stux I was about 5 at the time of this clip. My first real encounter with a computer, I think, wasn't until helping out adding books into the database at my school library when I was around 10 or 11.