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Yeah, programming with punch cards was a bear…:) >old guy here
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AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins
@AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@masto.nu
mastodon 4.7.3Some guy who writes a lot and doesnt make any money from it.
Stands for Civil Rights, equity, Trans/gay rights, fair distribution of the wealth created by workers. if you liberalism doesnt concern itself with racial justice first, i am not interested.
Writes lots of poetry, not to say any of it is worth reading....
But if you’re brave enough to try it, you can find most of it posted here:
https://anthonyuplandpoetwatkins.wordpress.com/
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657 Following
27 Posts
Joined November 19, 2022
Education:
College Dropout Auburn University Montgomery
Education:
Penn non degreed educator
What the fuck should I put here?:
Cranky old man paid to drive around N FLA
Religion:
I beleive in kindness, but not at the expense of justice.
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@markmorgan@mas.to @stavvers@masto.ai pretty much:) in fairness i got the tail end of punchcards, but i did spend my college years with a typewriter phone cradle interface to the mainframe. somehow i bet my laptop is much more powerful than that whole building full of tape machines...
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@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud @stavvers@masto.ai
just in case anyone is following along and dont know what the hell we are talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LoF6WI9PY
Four Yorkshiremen (Live)
Forget stranger danger, its your boyfriend or cousin
just moved to a new instance, will not be shutting this one down for a little while, but please follow me at @AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@mastodon.scribbler.social
and i will follow you back. will be doing most of my posting there, i think
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@shoeflyin@mastodon.social @secretgeek@mastodon.cloud @stavvers@masto.ai
By today’s standards, we really did program in a shoebox in the middle of the street back to 150 programmers in the same shoebox :-)
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@cjcrew@mastodon.sdf.org @markmorgan@mas.to @stavvers@masto.ai
I never saw our main frame. I just dialed it up with the telephone cradle.
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@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud @stavvers@masto.ai
I really am that old...
oh boy, my low techs are killing me:)
looking for an instance for poets, writers and creatives, not especially journalists. any suggestions? just went thru the list at https://joinmastodon.org/servers
I understand there are many 1000 and they only have a few hundred...
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@shoeflyin@mastodon.social @secretgeek@mastodon.cloud @stavvers@masto.ai
Punch cards, punchcard. No biTd:)
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@cjcrew@mastodon.sdf.org @stavvers@masto.ai
Out of sorts? :-)
thanks. can i also automatically follow or will i need to add everybody again?
thanks. i thought it was primarily for journalists, but will check it out. thinking about opening my own, but dont want to start spending $20-$30 bucks per month, yet. and i have very low tech skills these days (my tech skills were at their peak for 1977-1995:)...)
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@lochlomondwhiskey@kolektiva.social @Manigarm@mastodon.social
and my default reading is Al, as in "you can call me Al"
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@lolennui@mas.to
Daisy was a monster with a world of enablers
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@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud @shoeflyin@mastodon.social @stavvers@masto.ai
Most of my ancient history is recorded in my poetry
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