Re: private $foo [HISTORY - TOTALLY THREAD JACKED]

tedd wrote:

At 8:50 AM -0600 3/29/06, Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip] Read up on the history of computers -- the first programmer, as I recall, was one Lady Lovelace who programmed Babbage's first mechanical computer (if you don't count the abacus) in the early 1800's. Of course, I remember programming with rocks and that was before we had zero's. We only had one's and that was a programming nightmare. You new guys at least have 1's and 0's to work with. [/snip] ROFLMMFAO! You had rocks?!? Dang dude. I can't top that. I remember when we got our first hard-drive in the lab...a 10Mb dishwasher sized behemoth with its own AC unit

Not meaning to continue this thread, but you brought back memories. I remember in the early 80's when Crovis (sp) came out the their first HD -- at least it was the first I drooled over. It had 5 Megs and cost $5k and you could daisy-chain three together to get a whopping 15M for only $15,000. In my last HD purchase, 15M cost me less than $0.01. Not a bad advance in technology over the last 20 years, huh?

Hard drives. You wusses. Between punch cards, data cassettes, 5-1/4 and 8" floppies, it was years before I saw a hard drive. -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 jnichel@dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com