On 04/02/2008 03:18:56 PM, Dick Seabrook wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:08 PM, tom <tfreeman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Jim wrote: > > > > You know, if memory serves, some of the list members are > approaching four > > score years. They should remember what they were doing about the > time the > > first commercial digital computers were released upon the world. > > > > That would be the UNIVAC I in 1952, which went to the Census Bureau > as I > recall. > I was too young for computing -- spent most of the time watching > Arthur > Godfrey > and Jerry Lester (remember him?) on TV. Seems to me that was also > the year > Elizabeth II was crowned, Adlai Stevenson lost the election to Ike, > etc.... > I got a way to go before I hit four-score! > Dick S. Well, I chose four score years partly to be difficult. But also I chose it to suggest teenagers and young adults, and there are some on this list who would qualify. Myself, I don't get to have many personal memories until after FORTRAN and COBOL and LISP made the scene - too young
