[CLUE-Tech] CD burning

[Jed S. Baer]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:41:23 -0700
Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net> wrote:

> On 02-11 15:50, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > 
> > You youngsters don't know how good you have it. I've worked on systems
> > where the filename limit was 6.3 -- it didn't seem all that bad, when
> > it was the only thing you'd ever had available. Oh, and you were
> > restricted to uppercase letters and digits (other than the dot
> > seperator).
> 
> Youngster. :) Thanks, that just made my day.
> 
> I'm old enough to remember some of the fun of wrestling with systems
> like VMS and CMS - we had to write tapes on that wonderful piece of
> stuff at a job I started at back in 1994. What joy that was...uploading
> via null modem cable at 9600 baud, IIRC. 

9600 eh? Try 1200. And 1600BPI 9-track. One of the joys which many
newcomers to the IT field will never experience is the use of the
write-ring as a projectile. They made a nice whistling noise if you threw
them hard enough, but unlike something such as a CD platter, it was pretty
difficult to do any damage with them.

Unless you can remember typing your programs in using an O-29 keypunch
machine, you're a youngster. ;-)

jed
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