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on March 26, 2020
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Punched Cards? Sheer Bloody Luxury
You were lucky to have bytes! We used to shift and mask.
CarlRJ
on March 26, 2020
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Luxury. We just had one bit and we could only turn it on and off.
And it was a timesharing system, so you had to share that one bit with 13 other programmers.
mjcohen
on March 27, 2020
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When I started out, we had to move the electrons by hand!
lowbloodsugar
on March 27, 2020
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Oh we used to dream of having electrons! We used to have rotten fish dumped on us every morning and we'd use the presence of a head to indicate a true bit. Where do you think "running headless" comes from?
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