linuxcaffe; become peripheraly involved !

[John Macdonald]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 04:24:21PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 05:12:40PM -0500, John Macdonald wrote:
> > Ah, you youngsters had it easy!  I recall when I had to
> > carefully check my syntax. Then I'd put the card deck into
> > the collection box.  Once a week a courier came by to collect
> > the decks and take them to the remote high school that had
> > the computer.  The same courier returned the printouts of the
> > previous week's jobs.  The pickup/dropoff only took a minute
> > or two, so each syntax error that you didn't find added two
> > weeks to the time before you got to actually debug the program.
> > 
> > (... and, it was uphill both ways with 10 feet of snow on
> > the ground. :-)
> 
> I wonder how many forests each computer was responsible for clearing. :)
> I sure hope they recycled those cards and printouts.

Fortunately, we now have the paperless office.  :-)

I don't think that we currently use less paper for our
activities; the forests were safer from computers in those
"good old" days.

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