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Comment by cubano | Hacker News Reader

I just flipped a bank of 16 switches by hand with vacuum tube gates and core memory...punch cards are for sissies!

You had a computer? Back then I wrote C programs on paper, then executed them by hand...

One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.

C? All I had was a single book on MS-DOS, so I wrote batch files on paper, then executed them by hand.

(Not even joking, by the way - literally how I got into computers and programming.)

oh kids! i used to crank the wheel by hand on my analytical engine that my hacker friends and me built after there was a leak of babbage's plans! he never knew!

you kids and you petabytes of ram! back in my day....

(i'm looking forward for these comments to be commented on a certain website i'm not supposed to name)

you kids. We calculated with charcoal on the cave's wall while the adults were out hunting for wooly mammoths...

ZX81: Z80/1KB RAM... more recently though PIC12 (C501 IIRC) ...

I'm slightly surprised nobody has yet linked https://xkcd.com/505/

Or https://xkcd.com/378/

There's a website where people make fun of HN comments? Is it Twitter?

The prime directive of said website is to never name it on hacker news. But I'm pretty sure you can Google the prime directive itself and figure out where it comes from. As a hint, it starts with "ng".

more hints?

Webshit, once a week. I won't go further :)

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