[CLUE-Tech] CD burning

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 02-11 23:52, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> 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. ;-)

Okay, you got me, I'm a youngster. :) I do remember the 9-track, and
actually, I had to write them as late as 1995...and I remember having a
300-1200 baud modem for my C-64. 

...but I suppose this is a relative term. Consider: there are folks entering
the field who may have never used a CLI, whether it was from UNIX, TRS-80,
C-64, TI, VMS, CMS, Apple, etc...also, these folks probably never had to
worry about memory or HD space being an issue.  

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