(#pzxw5la) @movq It's doing something. In an endless loop. :-D

(#pzxw5la) @lyse Crazy – and nice. 😅 I kind of miss the audible feedback of home computers, too. When the drives were active, you knew the machine was doing something. 🙃 (I still have hard disks, not just SSDs, but they’re so quiet these days that you hardly hear them anymore.)

(#pzxw5la) @movq Good™ old™ times, indeed. Reminds me of a guided tour in the computer museum at University of Stuttgart when Clemens Krause told us that back in the days, the operators could hear what the machine is doing. For example they recognized by ear that the end of the tape is about to be reached soon, so they then could walk over and prepare a tape change or the like. Pretty awesome. :-)

(#pzxw5la) @lyse Well, I can’t say I’ve had much to do with IBM software. 😅 Except of course the “home stuff” in the 1990ies, PC-DOS and OS/2. Little bits of database stuff later on, but let’s just say it was … “convoluted”. I would have loved to work at that company during times like these, though: (That is, if we ignore all the misogyny and racism of that era. Bah.) Big machines. And you could actually understand what they’re doing and how they work. I hate that that is impossible these days.

(#pzxw5la) @movq I see. I only had brief contact with one of their crappy UML softwares in uni. Don't miss that at all.

(#pzxw5la) @lyse Not me directly, a family member. 😅 I only had a very brief contact with that company during University, but that was much later.

(#pzxw5la) @movq So you once worked at IBM? ;-)

(#pzxw5la) @xuu @lyse Yeah, I get a feeling that this program was only known to people who worked at IBM. 🤔 Kind of surprising to find it on the internet in the first place.

(#pzxw5la) @movq Nope, I never heard of it.

(#pzxw5la) Woh.. never heard of it. Growing up it was always just the MS EDIT.EXE or for more advanced stuff Nortons editor.