RE: FN-FORUM: [OT] April fools

date posted 1st April 2003 19:13

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> >One of the most successful April Fools I did was way back in the good

> >old days before hard disks, networks, viruses et al were invented.
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> You must be getting on a bit then. ;p

It does feel like that at times.... Perhaps the word invented would have
been better with the caveat of related to the original IBM Personal
Computers :-) Such wonderful memories of setting dip switches,
applications that would run from a 180kb floppy and 64kb was how the
machine came from the factory, installing hard disks and issuing
commands from debug.com to do the low level format. I did manage to
start on a card based batch system at University where you had to wait
all day for your results to appear, somewhere in a big pile of listing
paper. All that and I am still under 40 (just) - Ee bah gum youngsters
of today don't know they are born....

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> The first network appeared in about 1940. The hard drive was
> invented in
> 1955, and the first "real world" computer virus was written in 1982.
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