What's your oldest digital artifact (file, email, etc.) that you can still access without too much difficulty? In what year was it created?
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Is reading a paper tape from 1977 too much difficulty?
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Replying to @Meaningness
If you could get the file onto the internet in less than two hours, then no :). What's on the tape, btw?
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Program I wrote to generate verse; took in a template with variables, and did random substitution from word lists into that.
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Replying to @Meaningness @KevinSimler
Sounds trivial now, but stretched a computer with 6 kilobytes of memory to its limits :-)
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Replying to @Meaningness
Word. Isn't it weird how old programs on constrained machines can provoke such nostalgia?
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Replying to @KevinSimler
Yes. For decades I’ve been fantasizing about buying and restoring the models that I cut my teeth on.
3:57 PM - 14 Sep 2016
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