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

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 for "Who is hiring?" post) if we could just find them.

> 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!)

Im 50, learned assembly on the Atari 800XL computer. I still use the technics and algorithms i learned there.

I've got an "OpenDoc Kamp Kodabunch" sweatshirt.

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 :-)

It's almost like hearing a foreign language now.

The Steve Jobs response is klassic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_in...

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.

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.

That brings back memories...

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