Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for September 05, 2024

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    catchup  4 months ago

    Is that a young Mrs Jensen in the background?

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    P51Strega  4 months ago

    I say Nix on the Dick on the poster.

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator 4 months ago

    Here’s our friend Musser Morgan again, about whom we read some weeks ago in our profiles series.

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    jmcenanly  4 months ago

    In about ten years, things will start changing

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    PoodleGroomer  4 months ago

    Buy some filing cabinets to store the paper tapes with all of your programs and data. There are paper tape readers that can handle 2000 characters per minute.

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    ChukLitl Premium Member 4 months ago

    Catching the next wave, you may surf far. A lot of $ got flushed while they figured out how to “monetize.” The grand strategy became; Advertise everything, everywhere, all at once.

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    Retired engineer  4 months ago

    Started in the mainframe business back in 75. Dealt with equipment that was already old at that point, including IBM 2311 disk (hydraulically operated, size of a washing machine and stored 5 MB) and an IBM 1800, equipped with a separate memory cabinet the size of a refrigerator that stored 64K of core.

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    EOCostello  4 months ago

    Hackenschmidt and Yakamoto (Accountants of Fortune™) well remember the days when you could laminate computer punch cards and use them as either lockpicks or edged weapons. “Oh, the days,” the senior of the duo recalls, “when we were young trainees, being taught by our elders and betters who had gone through the hell of the Great Depression.”

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    JK Hudson  4 months ago

    Macromedia had some great products that Adobe ruined when they bought the company.

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