Comment on What are your defining memories of computing in the old days?

Antihero5438@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• feoh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh MAN those magazine listings!

  I remember my mom, bless her, reading them to me so I could type the bloody things in becauase, being partially blind, I couldn’t get the bloody page close enough to my face to properly read the infinite lines of DATA statements :)

  And then, years later, they finally came out with checksum programs so you could see a number at the end of each line and compare it with what was in the magazine.

  Crazy to think back, innit? :)

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• Harryd91@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I actually love vi to this day. As long as you understand the basic concepts (how to navigate, append/insert, switch between modes, save and exit) it’s great. I’m a touch-typer so I could whiz around vi like nobody’s business.

  HATED Emacs though

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