high school programming & python

[William Tanksley]

On 14 Sep 1999 23:43:55 GMT, Aahz Maruch wrote:
>Robin Becker  <robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>><philh at vision25.demon.co.uk> writes

>>>Machine language! You young people today don't know what hardship
>>>is... when I were a lad, we had to manually patch the ALU using
>>>plug boards to change the logic.

>>You were lucky to have plugboards. We had to key things in with a bunch
>>of switches.

>You were lucky to have switches.  We had to rewire the traces.

Traces indeed.  They didn't let us touch the traces; we had to hand-orient
a jar of magnetic filings using a hammer and the earth's magnetic field.

And then hand it over to the DP professionals, and hope they didn't decide
to shake the jar.

>                      --- Aahz (@netcom.com)

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-William "Billy" Tanksley