Tim Ward wrote:

But that was real computing - depending on how serious a mistake you made
you could get a 250v, 500v or 4,000v shock. Definitely
left-hand-in-pocket territory.

One of the analogue computers on which I worked offered the chance to lose
an arm should you get it caught in the mechanism. That's *both*
hands-in-pockets territory.

Youngsters today don't know the half of it. Etc, etc... g

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