Simple Question Re: FedUp

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 12/16/2012 08:29 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/16/2012 05:15 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> Age is irrelevant when quantifying competence or skill nor should it be
>> (you'd feel peeved I should imagine if somebody referred to you
>> similarly because you first installed Linux from a floppy).
>>
>
> I'm not saying that he's wrong or not competent and, in fact, by the 
> time I first installed Linux (an early version of RedHat in the '90s) 
> it came on CD.  I just thought it worth commenting on the fact that he 
> didn't even appear to know about installing from floppy.
>
>> If you feel the rest of the arguments he made in his post are somehow
>> wrong & feel you could enlighten him & help the whole community out as
>> well, I'm sure he would be only too delighted to benefit from your years
>> of experience.
>
> Oh, no, I have no quarrel with his explanation; I just found it 
> interesting that he was just as unaware of installing from floppy as 
> he (probably) was about installing an OS from punched cards, as we 
> needed to do on the first computer I ever programmed.  (If memory 
> serves, what we'd now call the binary image, along with a program to 
> load the cards and write them properly on the hard disk, filled three 
> drawers of punched cards.)
OMG!.......incredible!


EGO II