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> I'm a frigging EXPERT in dozens of stuff that would make people smile now (those who are old enough ;-)) I'd love to read your list. :)

buserror 8y ago
I'll just tell you now I've got a T-shirt with "Copland Driver Kitchen" :-)
- Chopsah2 8y ago
  I've got an "OpenDoc Kamp Kodabunch" sweatshirt.
  - buserror 8y ago
    Phoew that's cool! I have to say Opendoc always smelled wrong to me, so I stayed clear -- But I did implement the 'whose' descriptors in Applescript once, and I still have the scars to prove it :-) I wrote a lot of "Apple Telecom 3.0" that ran on most "powerbooks" back in 1995+ or so, you know, modems, faxes, voice mails and all these very high tech stuff :-)
    - james_s_tayler 8y ago
      It's almost like hearing a foreign language now.
  - fredbo22 8y ago
    The Steve Jobs response is klassic. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_insult_response_transcription/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_in...
    - jimbokun 8y ago
      Just watched the video. This is the Steve Jobs more young entrepreneurs need to know about and emulate. Not the "Jobs was an asshole and successful, therefor if I am an asshole I will also be successful" vision of Jobs. Or the "Jobs made pretty things and suckered people into paying too much for them" vision of Jobs.
    - hoorayimhelping 8y ago
      Wow. I need to remember him taking that drink of water and giving himself time to respond. I respond way too quickly to things far too often. You can just see himself giving himself a second to collect himself. Brilliant.
- jedberg 8y ago
  That brings back memories...
- souprock 8y ago
  You have me beat, but I have a coworker who used paper tape. That is, computer data storage was via holes punched in a long strip of paper. Another coworker wrote Alternate Reality, which was a game for the Atari 800XL 8-bit home computer. Finding these experienced people isn't easy. Many don't want to move. You can't just drop by a college and grab them in bulk. We'd hire more (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 for "Who is hiring?" post) if we could just find them.
  - jorgeleo 8y ago
    Im 50, learned assembly on the Atari 800XL computer. I still use the technics and algorithms i learned there.
  - JohnFen 8y ago
    > You have me beat, but I have a coworker who used paper tape. When I first learned to program (I was about 12), I was using paper tape and those old Bell teletypes, in a facility that still used punched cards. Here's my punched card story -- I bumped a box with a card deck and it sent the cards flying, mixing them all up. The systems operator made me sort the cards by hand. It took me hours. It was a few months before I learned that they had a machine that would have done that for me automatically -- but the sysop had decided that I needed to learn a lesson (which I did, in fact, learn!)

buserror 8y ago

I'll just tell you now I've got a T-shirt with "Copland Driver Kitchen" :-)

Chopsah2 8y ago
I've got an "OpenDoc Kamp Kodabunch" sweatshirt.
- buserror 8y ago
  Phoew that's cool! I have to say Opendoc always smelled wrong to me, so I stayed clear -- But I did implement the 'whose' descriptors in Applescript once, and I still have the scars to prove it :-) I wrote a lot of "Apple Telecom 3.0" that ran on most "powerbooks" back in 1995+ or so, you know, modems, faxes, voice mails and all these very high tech stuff :-)
  - james_s_tayler 8y ago
    It's almost like hearing a foreign language now.
- fredbo22 8y ago
  The Steve Jobs response is klassic. https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_insult_response_transcription/ https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_in...
  - jimbokun 8y ago
    Just watched the video. This is the Steve Jobs more young entrepreneurs need to know about and emulate. Not the "Jobs was an asshole and successful, therefor if I am an asshole I will also be successful" vision of Jobs. Or the "Jobs made pretty things and suckered people into paying too much for them" vision of Jobs.
  - hoorayimhelping 8y ago
    Wow. I need to remember him taking that drink of water and giving himself time to respond. I respond way too quickly to things far too often. You can just see himself giving himself a second to collect himself. Brilliant.
jedberg 8y ago
That brings back memories...
souprock 8y ago
You have me beat, but I have a coworker who used paper tape. That is, computer data storage was via holes punched in a long strip of paper. Another coworker wrote Alternate Reality, which was a game for the Atari 800XL 8-bit home computer. Finding these experienced people isn't easy. Many don't want to move. You can't just drop by a college and grab them in bulk. We'd hire more (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19055183 for "Who is hiring?" post) if we could just find them.
- jorgeleo 8y ago
  Im 50, learned assembly on the Atari 800XL computer. I still use the technics and algorithms i learned there.
- JohnFen 8y ago
  > You have me beat, but I have a coworker who used paper tape. When I first learned to program (I was about 12), I was using paper tape and those old Bell teletypes, in a facility that still used punched cards. Here's my punched card story -- I bumped a box with a card deck and it sent the cards flying, mixing them all up. The systems operator made me sort the cards by hand. It took me hours. It was a few months before I learned that they had a machine that would have done that for me automatically -- but the sysop had decided that I needed to learn a lesson (which I did, in fact, learn!)