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Mmmm, black & sexxxy (& CRT monitor?!?!)ToastToastand marmite 02:20, 30 March 2009 (EDT)

Shouldn't it be a row of ten foot high boxes with flashing lights & beautiful young women in short skirts scurrying around it? ToastToastand marmite 02:22, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
Should be......alas........the monitor was "procured" from my university after recent upgrades to our lab. 216.221.87.112 02:25, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
I must say Toast has a much better imagination then I do, nothing like that never occurs to me. - User 02:41, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
I was one of those (beautiful?) young women 40 years ago. Oh & we had tape drives ToastToastand marmite 02:55, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
You were a computer tech back in the days when it was a manual labour job? - User 03:05, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
1968 (ish) - a whole floor of a purpose built building with (!) air con (!), probably with less computing power than my PDA & only tape for storage. ToastToastand marmite 03:10, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
(even the program(me)s were on tape.) ToastToastand marmite 03:11, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
As opposed to? Anyway, the reason it isn't a row of ten foot high boxes with flashing lights is that by the Laws of Hollywood Computing, it would be guaranteed to become sentient and try to kill us all. Harmonic bastard Phantom Hoover! 04:11, 30 March 2009 (EDT)
(Cue four yorkshiremen) Tape! Tape! We used to dream of tape! Our box in the middle of the road was driven by punch cards. Silver Sloth 04:29, 30 March 2009 (EDT)