Diary Of a Freshly Recruted Software Engineer

“I guess i’ll stick to my pad and paper
and quit soon. So far awindow was
something I hated to clean and ram was
the cousin of a goat. Meg was the name of
my girlfriend and gig was somthung you did
on stage for money. An application was for
employment. A program was a TV show.
Now they all mean different things. And that
really mega bytes.I hear nobody’s been killed
in a computer crash. But when it does hap-
pen, theywish they were bead.”


DID YOU KNOW?

The firest true laptop was
the GRid compass 1101
designed by Bill Moggridge
in 1970/80, and reieased in
1982. enclosed in a mag-
nesium case, it intro-
duced the clamshell
design, in which
the flat display
folded shut against
the keyboard.

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