On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 22:13:24 -0800 Gerald Chudyk <gchudyk@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> > Who'd have thought thirty years ago we'd all be sittin' here
> > alt-tabin' between xterms with a windowmanager of our choice!
> >
> > In them days we was glad to have little rectangular pieces of paper
> > (wet paper!) and would move them on our desk (at least those lucky
> > bastards who had a desk! a broken desk that is) and point a pencil
> > (with no grafit) into to the one we wanted to write in.
> >
> > And you try and tell the young people of today that
> > ..... they won't believe you.
> >
> >
> 
> Not me. Thirty years ago I was introduced to the NCR 8250. We could
> hunt for wumpuses or write code or process batch files from our
> customers. A couple of years later the NCR tech amazed us by switching
> the console from white to a black background. This let us play
> wumpuses a lot longer without the usual eye fatigue. Sadly our
> customers never really noticed any productivity gain.
> 

http://xkcd.com/378/

-- 
J.C. Roberts