but then one open his case and takes out a telephone handset and says “hello”. After a short delay, he hands it to his companion, and says “It’s for you”.
When I first got my license we built a battery powered supply to ring a standard "bell ringer" phone (STC "princess" from memory) and we used to do that at traffic lights. Phone would ring, wait for odd look from the next car over then "answer" the phone and wind the window down, then hold the handset out with an "it's for you".
I'd forgotten about that.
you know were Yugoslavi,bombay,peking,saigon,ceylon and burma are.
When you used:
- an IBM 082 card sorter - regularly
- IBM 3348 Data Modules - which weighed a few kgs each (and reminded me of the starship Enterprise). We had the higher capacity ones that were 70MB each!
- the only screen which was the main operator console
- punched cards for everything
at your first full time job
In my long-past youth, real programmers put sequence numbers in the right-most columns of Hollerith cards to allow such resorting. You always started by sorting on the least-significant digit, re-stack, sort on the next digit, etc. until you reached the most-significant digit. This type of equipment predated programmed computers.
When watching Professor Julius Sumner Miller on B&W TV was one of your childhood pleasures.
When watching Professor Julius Sumner Miller on B&W TV was one of your childhood pleasures.
One of my mates went one better---he mounted the phone under the bonnet ("hood) of his old Valiant.
He liked to do this with an accomplice.
He would stop at a set of lights with a busy flow of pedestrians, his mate would be crossing when the phone rang, & would pop the bonnet open, pull out the phone, "listen" for a couple of seconds, then hold it out, saying "It's for you!"
When watching Professor Julius Sumner Miller on B&W TV was one of your childhood pleasures.
Oh, yes!
In fact, my parents thought I wasn't applying myself at school, so they wrote to the good professor for some words of wisdom - AND HE WROTE BACK! A quick note in felt tipped pen on the back of a flyer and signed by the good professor. It's buried somewhere in the archives of my life - safely, I hope.
When watching Professor Julius Sumner Miller on B&W TV was one of your childhood pleasures.
And you got up to manually change the TV channel. Those new fangled ultrasonic remote controls were a very expensive option.
I remember watching myself on TV. There was a morning children's show produced by one of the three channels we had at that time. It was recorded live and then broadcast from tape with a delay. The audience always was made up of local kids. When it was done you could hurry home and see yourself in glorious black and white.
(Recently)... When you find old bits of 'Code' you wrote years ago, or try to understand it!!!
I keep my old Laptop Hard-Drives, like some people have BOOKS! I 'must' go back, and find my old "Snippets"
software, where I used to keep/save all my old 'bits' of interesting & reusable Code, for the categorized use
of 'C', 'C++', 'Basic', 'JavaScript', 'Delphi' etc etc. Was a great way to have reusable bits/modules on hand!!
P.S. Sometimes, I would DELIBERATELY write some confusing 'code', that perfectly did the job, but purposely resulted
in people way off track when trying to 'decipher' it, even if they go their hands on the Source-Code!