high school programming & python

[john.grayson at gsc.gte.com]

john.grayso- at gsc.gte.com wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/python-list/?start=67382
> 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)
> 
> -- 
> -William "Billy" Tanksley
> 
A Jar indeed! All we had was a cardboard box and we had to evict the
family
who were living in it at the time...

Don't try to mess with a REAL Yorkshireman!

   John