[ale] OT: 3D Printers, Walmart & CES

[JD]

On 01/09/2014 02:47 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> We wished we *had* all those bits.
> 
> WHA?!?
> 
> You had more than 1 bit?!?! We had to make our own bits. Right out of dirt and
> spit we did. Every morning before breakfast it get up in cold and dark and go
> make damn bloody bits or we'd get nothing to eat.

Kids today with their zeros AND ones.

Spoiled, all of them.

You aren't a REAL programmer 'til you've written a screen editor with just zeros.

I remember dreaming of a Z80-based system. The 1st computer at home was an NEC
V20 (8088 clone).