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29/06/2005 06:15:07
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Title:
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01027154
Message ID:
01027317
Views:
13
>LUXURY!!!
>
>When I were a lad, computers were a cardboard box with pebbles in it. Each pebble had a character drawn on it wi' felt-tip pen and you had to move them around to make commands by holding them between the ends of two knitting needles. All the output came on a roll of that hard, shiny toilet paper that no-one likes, scrawled on wi' blunt charcoal. Alternatively you could eviscerate a chicken and read the augury.
>
>We didn't have a mouse - but a live hamster inside. You programmed in binary code, using the hamster's droppings.
>
>And you tell that to the kids of today ... and they won't believe you!

Today's children are way too skeptical!
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