Re: Distros specifically designed for children

On 5/30/25 1:39 AM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 29 May 2025 23:02:47 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

  But, I suppose some block to filling your gas tank
    with diesel DOES have some uses. Note it doesn't keep you from,
    disastrously, putting gasoline into your diesel vehicle.

 As a friend of mine found out when his son got helpful. The Mercedes sort
of ran.

   "Sort of" - surprised. Usually some nasty EXPLOSION
   follows .......

    Hmmm ... weren't all cars suppose to have turbine,
    or atomic, engines by now - they PROMISED us back in the 50s/60s !
    They were also supposed to FLY ! WHERE'S MY DAMNED FLYING CAR ???

 https://www.worldsfairphotos.com/nywf64/chrysler.htm
 GE sent a friend and I to the fair, trying to groom potential engineers in
promising high school students. GE isn't what it was then, and one of the
few things that did happen was touch tone dialing. Kennedy opened the fair
with a TT phone and there was a booth where you could see how much faster
it was than a rotary dial. Of course Ma Bell owned the whole shebang.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4zjEwqdJQ

   "Touch-tone" WAS do-able ...
   But STILL want my flying car !!!
   When I was a kiddie, a teacher took us to the proximate
   Bell/ATT facility. It was PACKED with row after row after
   row of relay-operated dialer machines. Physically connected
   one physical line with others. SO cool to watch ! Ca-chunk,
   ca-chunk, ca-chunk the discs would go around in order to
   connect A with B - layer after layer. Straight-up wired
   contacts back then, no software. Electro-mechanical magic !