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dballance

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9. I worked as a computer operator

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Mar 30, 2012, 09:55 PM

Mar 2012

I remember hanging tapes like those and pulling printouts off printers just like those in the video. To bad they didn't show an old punch-card machine. Those were a pain.

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Arthur C. Clarke in 1974 Describing the Internet/PC as Commonplace as the Telephone in 2001. [View all] onehandle Mar 2012 OP

1910: For predictions, how about this? Hissyspit Mar 2012 #1

The author did predict the hat part correctly... PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #6

I don't think anyone, including Clarke or Gibson, quite caught on that the Internet would become leveymg Mar 2012 #2

Yikes! The memories those monster computers bring back! Speck Tater Mar 2012 #3

I worked for Univac as a secretary for a while in the sixties. Those were monsters. n/t Cleita Mar 2012 #5

May I ask man4allcats Mar 2012 #14

Yes, it's a bumper sticker slogan that I won on DU. Cleita Mar 2012 #15

OK. Thanks! n/t man4allcats Mar 2012 #17

I have the video of "2001, A Space Odyssey". Cleita Mar 2012 #4

my kid swears he spotted a laptop aboard the space station. n/t chknltl Mar 2012 #7

They were using Ipads too on the space ship. n/t Cleita Mar 2012 #8

Samsung’s prior art argument against iPad design: Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” PoliticAverse Mar 2012 #11

(Hate it when my kid is right.) chknltl Mar 2012 #12

A bit off topic but I had a friend in the early-fifties who virgogal Mar 2012 #10

Yes, we all knew one or two of those. Cleita Mar 2012 #16

I worked as a computer operator dballance Mar 2012 #9

And for all you 2001 fans, check out man4allcats Mar 2012 #13

Cheers, thanks for that....nt Esra Star Mar 2012 #19

flame war in the YouTube comments Enrique Mar 2012 #18