But he never could quite overcome Lady Lovelace's Objection!
Andrew Fildes
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On 13/12/2011, at 9:19 AM, Donald wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 22:10, SwissPace wrote:
>> I also started with a time shared teleprinter connection to a mainframe,
>> connected via an acoustic couple which meant you had to be quiet or the
>> connection got dropped. we used a language called cesil which no one
>> else I have met in the computing world has heard off.
>>
>> Having just finished our data centre move to new site I am glad modern
>> servers are much smaller than the equipment of the old days.
>>
>
> Eee, ah mind ould mistah Babbage, just a lad 'e were, well one deh,
> sittin' int' shoebox, in middlet' road, 'e says to me 'e says...
>
> D.
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> ;-)
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