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Discussion on: What are you "old enough to remember" in software development?

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Erik Pischel
  • load programs from cassette
  • running Windows 2 on 2 floppy drives and no hard drive - ridiculous slow
  • Writing code in basic
  • Buying a coprocessor
  • Buying Turbo Pascal 6
  • dial up connections to pre-internet btx and university computers starting with a 1000 baud modem
  • fiddling with config.sys etc in DOS 3.3 to DOS 6
  • Early html web pages
  • Beginnings of Java including "servletrunner"