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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Stupid computers of yesteryear
Keywords: why not put it in the terminal?
Message-ID: <3430@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 8 Aug 88 04:13:24 GMT
References: <12139@duke.cs.duke.edu> <12802@mimsy.UUCP> <5012@rpp386.UUCP>
Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <5012@rpp386.UUCP> jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:
}In article <12802@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
}>Ah, the joys of summer jobs in high school....  (And a lesson in
}>spotting nerds: other kids mowed lawns or delivered papers; I
}>programmed $100K systems test machines :-) .)
}>-- 
}>In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
}
}[ i delivered papers in high school.  made damned good money.  just
}  throw LOTS of papers. ]
}
}i also wrote programs for TI SR-52s.  an engineer i worked for had
}me write a collection of hydrostatics programs for TI and HP
}calculators.  we actually designed a 200 ton inland waterways tug
}using an ti-59.  the year after the MV Lane Thomas was launched,
}we did derick barge design using an hp-41cv complete with tape drive
}and video monitor.  i undertook writing a psuedo-operating system
}for the 41.  and then apples and trs-80s became affordable, and faster
}than a calculator ;-) but i did manage to get a few jobs to run in
}a semi-batch mode before giving up the calculators for good.

This is of course totally unrelated, but I wrote a Requiem when I was in
High School. I made no money from it.

So There.