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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by walshemj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:03PM (#17789086)
I still miss the IBM selectric typewriter :-)
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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by 3rdAccount on Saturday August 18, 2018 @12:59PM (#17789367)
I enjoyed learning how they added a rotating ball to that typewriter and hooked it up to some kind of mainframe for the first APL implementation I think.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_DTpQ4Kk2wA

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Re:My dad’s resume and skills from 1980 by fitba1969 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:17PM (#17790417)
I miss the lined green dot matrix printouts. Best way to read code. But maybe I'm just romanticising.
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