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[68.2.246.115]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c2-20020a17090a020200b001e88c4bb3dcsm2091157pjc.25.2022.06.30.08.55.43 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:55:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Adam Thornton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 16.0 \(3696.100.31\)) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 08:55:41 -0700 References: <180245D1-0DCD-4C2C-A26A-EF68578FD548@canb.auug.org.au> To: steve jenkin , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society In-Reply-To: <180245D1-0DCD-4C2C-A26A-EF68578FD548@canb.auug.org.au> Message-Id: <779778EE-7A4B-42BC-A3AD-5D70E09E77B8@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3696.100.31) Message-ID-Hash: FQ3NBHVD2UYQBJN7KIWBR25MWZA2V5GB X-Message-ID-Hash: FQ3NBHVD2UYQBJN7KIWBR25MWZA2V5GB X-MailFrom: athornton@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: > On Jun 30, 2022, at 6:14 AM, steve jenkin = wrote: >=20 > What are the 1970=E2=80=99s & 1980=E2=80=99s Computing / IT skills = =E2=80=9Cour grandkids won=E2=80=99t have=E2=80=9D? 80s: being able to understand more or less what the whole machine was = doing at any given time. I consider myself fortunate that I grew up on = 80s micros where the machines were powerful enough to do = interesting-to-a-bright-12-year-old things (like, say, Choplifter), but = small enough that...well, there's only 64K, only one instruction is = operating at a time, the sound-and-video-coprocessor-(if-any)-APIs are = tiny, if you're a determined bright 12-year-old, you can figure out how = it's doing what it's doing. This is post-80s, but: Massive midrange hearing loss in their 40s and 50s because of their late = 20s and 30s being spent inside very very noisy datacenters. Not that I'm bitter. Just it would have been nice if my parents were = right and it had been that loud rock 'n' roll rather than, you know, = _fans_. Adam=