2026-09-09 12:20 UTC
@dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @vnikolov@ieji.de @rk@mastodon.well.com @ed1conf@bsd.network @mike805@noc.social @thalia@discuss.systems
Well into the 1980s, my engineering college in Burma was still using the leftover DECwriter units to supplement a few new VT100 units that we did have. I suppose it was for the better: we learned to “hand write” our design, analysis, proof, and code on paper—on the backside of discarded 132-column printer paper—a good habit that has been lost to time.
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@benjamingeer@piaille.fr 2026-09-09 12:56
@AmenZwa@mathstodon.xyz @dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz @vnikolov@ieji.de @rk@mastodon.well.com @ed1conf@bsd.network @mike805@noc.social @thalia@discuss.systems When I was 15 I spent a summer vacation writing a 6502 assembly language program on a pad of yellow legal paper, then hand-assembling it to machine code and typing it into an Apple II. Those were the days 😄