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   Jamie McCarthy (jamiemccarthy@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 00:18:18 JST Jamie McCarthy

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   @CartyBoston It’s 1979 and I am a child in elementary school. My parents drop me off at the campus computer building. I walk into the room across the hall from the PDP-10 and spend all day writing a LIFE program in BASIC and sending the output to the 132-column printer. I wait in line for my print job next to bemused college students and a disused card punch machine. No one asks whether I belong

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     CartyBoston (cartyboston@mastodon.roundpond.net)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 00:18:19 JST CartyBoston

     It's 1979, I have heard of #unix but my university has no machine to run it. Prof says "Moravian College (across town) has a PDP-11 that runs unix, go check it out."

     There was no email, students did not have telephones, I just walked into their computer center. They were so thrilled someone was interested they encouraged me to stay and learn.

     Oh my God what have we done?

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