high school programming & python

[Robin Becker]

In article <37DF9080.21A8D285 at calibre-dd.com>, Stephen J King
<king at calibre-dd.com> writes
>Robin Becker wrote:
>> >> You were lucky to have plugboards. We had to key things in with a bunch
>> >> of switches.
>> >
>> >Hard little metal toggle switches, too -- none of these posh molded
>> >plastic rocker switches!
>
>Luxury! When we was kids all we 'ad was old wires which we 'ad to strip
>with our teeth and wrap around dirty binding posts with our bare
>fingers.
>
>--  Stephen J King    Technology Manager   Calibre Digital Pictures  
>--  king at calibre-dd.com               http://www.calibredigital.com
true down at't mill programmers had to dig up t't metal and smelt't
before building the switch. The kids then had to run back and forth with
the one switch emulating lots of possibilities.
-- 
Robin Becker