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Paper card filing systems.
Green screen consoles with COBOL/CICS coding, referencing VSAM file systems.
The engine compartment in my 78 car looked like the insides of a fighter jet. My older car much less complex.
Multiple moon landings.
When I move this machine to my retirement home, I will convert it to Linux.
High tech when I started working? One of those new Japanese transistor radios. I hung it from the handlebars of my bicycle when I delivered newspapers.
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Back in the day (90s) it was used on Unix machines, for all sorts of word processing, doc creation, desk top publishing, etc.
Oh to get back tot he efficiency of UX... (and get rid of the MANY headaches of windows and Ios... updates and processor / CPU overhead... which kills those of us w/o internet / HS connections... Count me in the 5% of USA without internet coverage, tho I'm only 16 miles from 800k metro area.
Technology had it's 'wonders'... now we just 'wonder' if it will ever refresh!
With UX... no problem! kill the process (ps-options) (Windows is TRYING to get there, but has a LONG way to go, cuz they are also chasing Ios. ) only 186 processes running at the moment (High overhead). I certainly enjoyed being able / access my remote boxes in USA while on foreign assignments in the 1980's. (We've come so FAR!).
I will just need to embrace / spend the effort to re-format to linux. (and create my own ISP for my few neighbors without). No towers or dishes allowed, no cable available, tho Fiber came directly past our property, it was USDA RD $$ so only allowed for Schools and Libraries. Darn, we didn't qualify as homeschoolers. At least it is only a 16 mile drive to balance my checkbook or check email!
I remember paper tape, punch cards, and punching the bootstrap loader into the computer (which took up a whole series of rooms) in native octal. Fountain pens were still commonly available - the "space age" ball point that you could get to write upside down was a Modern Miracle. Our TV at home still had vacuum tubes. So did most better stereo equipment. Push button phones cost a lot more than rotary dial phones. Ma Bell was still the only game in town. The "cell phone" was still just a gleam in Dick Tracy's eye. A VCR would run you over $1,000 - in 1970s money. That would be $4,350 in today money. And it was the size of - well, several breadboxes.
When I was a kid our state still had outhouses at road stops. My grandmother had "running water" in her kitchen - that is, they dug a well in the basement and installed a hand pump next to her farm sink. Well do I remember priming the hand pump outside and filling buckets to help her water her EXTENSIVE garden.
Microwaves preceded VCRs by about 10 years - in the mid-late 60's. A new microwave was $500 to $800 - about $4000 to $7000 in today money. Now you can pick one up that works a whole lot better and is smaller (with a larger interior) for about $35 to $50 easily.
There's been a whole lot of tech change in my lifetime. Now imagine what it was like for my dad - who went from plow horses to moon rockets and beyond. Born 1919, died 2009. Imagine being around for the advent of antibiotics becoming commonly available!
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