Re: The Macintosh is a girl's computer!

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

Nonsense. Real men do it in DOS,

Pfft. Nah, *real* men do it in machine code - entered as binary.

Reverse hexadecimal, if you know your classics,

<cough> I do. You don't. Read on and learn.

I used to attend Manchester University[1]. While there, I met the
retired Atlas console parked outside the Computer Science department's
library. You wanted to enter code before boot, you entered it in binary
- there was a long row of data switches for that purpose. The bootstrap
programme[2] was written on a bit of paper stuck to the console so the
operator didn't have to look far to find it if the machine needed
powering up or rebooting.

You don't. Allan Turing lectured in hexadecimal
long before toys like these were being built.
You can't get more classic than that.

And he did grow very real titties too.
Not from using a Mac though,
but from being forced to take overdoses of sex hormomnes
by a criminal British government.
It drove him so mad that he died
from biting a piece out of an Apple.

So, if you really knew your classics
you would know it was the other way round:
titties before Apple,

Jan
.

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