Severo Ornstein called his memoir of the 1950s - 1970s Computing in the Middle Ages. Ornstein worked on SAGE, TX-2, LINC, and the Arpanet IMP among other things, before moving on to Xerox PARC.
I’d call basically anything before the mid 90s ancient, even though I was there and using it at the time, just because of how much of the way we use computers now has changed so drastically.
Severo Ornstein called his memoir of the 1950s - 1970s Computing in the Middle Ages. Ornstein worked on SAGE, TX-2, LINC, and the Arpanet IMP among other things, before moving on to Xerox PARC.
https://worrydream.com/refs/Ornstein_2002_-_Computing_in_the...
I'm a Stargate fan, and I call everything created before 1980 Ancient Technology. I like how it sounds.
The Ancients had cool tech. Probably all running on Unix :P
While exact definitions vary, it's a term of art for Research Unix ≤ V7, perhaps plus or minus a version, perhaps including contemporary derivatives.
Some of us are ancient enough to have been born before the last person walked on the moon.
Some of us are working day jobs in tech and remember the first guy.
I’d call basically anything before the mid 90s ancient, even though I was there and using it at the time, just because of how much of the way we use computers now has changed so drastically.
Amiga WB, Macs, Atari GEM, RiscOS... not that different.
Relatively speaking, any operating system from the 70s is "ancient".
What about from the 60s? Archaic?
https://www.unisys.com/product-info-sheet/ecs/clearpath-mast...
Is it at all possible to get a peak into that world as a curious person?
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Anything with non keyboard input = prehistoric.