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by CarlRJ 2268 days ago
Luxury. We just had one bit and we could only turn it on and off.

And it was a timesharing system, so you had to share that one bit with 13 other programmers.

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When I started out, we had to move the electrons by hand!
Oh we used to dream of having electrons! We used to have rotten fish dumped on us every morning and we'd use the presence of a head to indicate a true bit. Where do you think "running headless" comes from?