LED's and switches?!?  Geez, we would'a *killed* for stuff like that!  All
*we* ever had was bare wires sticking out of the console.  We couldn't
afford solder, so we just twisted the wires together.  That was OK, unless
you grabbed one of the main power leads, which didn't happen often, which
was too bad, because it was the closest thing we had to real
entertainment...

:-)

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Benson [SMTP:jb at speed.net]
> Sent:	Monday, May 08, 2000 10:13 AM
> To:	squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject:	Re: Freshmeat for Squeak
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Card readers? That was a luxury. Oh, if we just could have used cards, we
> would have been on easy street. We used to just hack it in through the
> console toggle switches, and watch the LEDs on the front panel to see if
> our
> programs worked.
> 
> Jim
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce O'Neel <beoneel at mindspring.com>
> To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
> Cc: Joshua Gargus <gargus at cs.ualberta.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 4:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Freshmeat for Squeak
> 
> 
> > I date myself.  Cards in a card reader, right?.  What, you folks didn't
> use
> > cards?
> >
> > Joshua Gargus <gargus at cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 07:33:48AM -0400, Pennell, David wrote:
> > > > Bert,
> > > >
> > > > Nice poem - but I wonder how many of the young folks on the list
> > > > know what "Face down, nine-edge first" means...
> > >
> > > I'm probably on the youngish side for people on the list, and I
> > > was wondering what this meant.
> > >
> > > Joshua
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I used to have a boss who's nick-name was "OneLastBug Gordon".
> > > > If anybody asked how the project was going, he would reply
> > > > I just have one last bug.  That went on for many months.
> > > >
> > > > -david
> >
> >