On 04/02/2008 03:18:56 PM, Dick Seabrook wrote:
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM, tom
<tfreeman(a)intel.digichem.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jim wrote:
>
> You know, if memory serves, some of the list members are
approaching four
> score years. They should remember what they were doing about the
time the
> first commercial digital computers were released upon the world.
>
> That would be the UNIVAC I in 1952, which went to the Census Bureau
as I
recall.
I was too young for computing -- spent most of the time watching
Arthur
Godfrey
and Jerry Lester (remember him?) on TV. Seems to me that was also
the year
Elizabeth II was crowned, Adlai Stevenson lost the election to Ike,
etc....
I got a way to go before I hit four-score!
Dick S.
Well, I chose four score years partly to be difficult. But also I chose
it to suggest teenagers and young adults, and there are some on this
list who would qualify.
Myself, I don't get to have many personal memories until after FORTRAN
and COBOL and LISP made the scene - too young