I started working with computers in 1982 when I was an Assistant Systems Coordinator for the SNAP (Shipboard Non-tatical ADP Program), and then started working on a Xerox 860, which didn't have a hard drive and used 8 inch floppies. You had to put the system disk in one slot and the data disk in the second slot. THen came the PC, and a 20 megabyte hard drive was able to run all of your programs. A gigabyte and a teraflop was not even heard of. Before that I would be working 40 hours a week and on my free time I would be traveling around the area going to concerts every weekend, and partying all night during the week. We were young and didn't require much sleep.
Boy how I miss those days. Life was simple, carefree, and not full of stress.
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