Re: [tlug] Call for presenters Apr 19th

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:13, Stephen J. Turnbull <[turnbull@example.com](mailto:On Tue, Apr 1, 2025 at 10:13, Stephen J. Turnbull <<a href=)> wrote:

> Ah, you youngsters and your digital sims! I learned how computers
> work tracing logic gates on a piece of paper with my father, once with
> a 64x64 plane of core memory sitting next to it on the kitchen table.
> Building half- and full-adders on paper. Then diving into the physics
> of NPN and PNP and hysteresis in flip-flops, all on paper. Wouldn't
> touch a user-programmable electronic device for another 6 years!

Sounds like fun! I definitely wrote some BASIC and 65C02 assembly in paper notebooks in the backseat of the car when I was a kid, but sadly wouldn’t know a logic gate if it slammed shut in my face until many years later.

—Josh