[TUHS] "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?

[Clem Cole]

   - that goes with >>dialing<< the phone and putting it in the rubber cups
   after you hear the tone from the FSK modem at that other end.
   - putting your deck into run queue and waiting for your turn to get 5
   seconds of compile and 3 seconds of CPU time for a student job
   - being limited to > .5M of storage (if you had any at all)
   - If you were an operator
      - handing a tape change request
      - starting/stopping the batch system to let students' jobs run
      - changing the print train
      - moving a plot tape from the computer to the plotter for output
      - changing disks
   - what a disk crash actually sounds like (and looks like on the platters)

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On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:41 AM Marc Donner <marc.donner at gmail.com> wrote:

> Programming an 026 skip card.  Inserting the skip card.
> Using ed in kernel safe mode to fix a broken config file.
> Threading a half-inch tape in a tape drive.  Remembering to insert or
> remove the write ring.
> Cleaning floppy disk heads.
> Manually keying a boot program into an SDS-930.
> =====
> nygeek.net
> mindthegapdialogs.com/home <https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 9:14 AM steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au>
> wrote:
>
>> What are the 1970’s & 1980’s Computing / IT skills “our grandkids won’t
>> have”?
>>
>> Whistling into a telephone while the modem is attached, because your
>> keyboard has a stuck key
>>          - something I absolutely don’t miss.
>>
>> Having a computer in a grimy wharehouse with 400 days of uptime &
>> wondering how a reboot might go?
>>
>> steve j
>>
>> =========
>>
>> 9 Skills Our Grandkids Will Never Have
>>         <
>> https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/06/9-skills-our-grandkids-will-never-have/
>> >
>>
>>         1: Using record players, audio cassettes, and VCRs
>>         2: Using analog phones
>>       [ or an Analog Clock ]
>>         3. Writing letters by hand and mailing them
>>         4. Reading and writing in cursive
>>         5. Using manual research methods                                [
>> this is a Genealogy site ]
>>         6. Preparing food the old-fashioned way
>>         7. Creating and mending clothing
>>         8. Building furniture from scratch
>>         9. Speaking the languages of their ancestors
>>
>> --
>> Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design
>> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
>> PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
>>
>> mailto:sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
>>
>>
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