I always load my bootloader via cassette. Doesn’t everybody? 
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Hah! Piker! You’re supposed to load it with switches on the front panel.
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@GWeck, I miss the days when a computer terminal was affixed to the base of an office chair, with a really long cable coming out the back of it that went across the room, and everyone thought this wasn’t weird 
Also, you’re not a real computer user until your logs print onto 25cm x 17cm dot matrix paper 
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96gbs BABY!!!
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VAX 11/780 with LA120 console printer!
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Shoot I used a CDC Cyber 7600 in college.
That was what Seymour Cray built before he built the Cray.
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@SteveC, Fortran on punched cards, or serial terminal?
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For me, it was a CDC 3300. Punched cards - the serial terminal never worked longer than a quarter of an hour, and then the CDC crashed.
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It was a serial terminal. I barely missed having to do cards for the intro to programming language (I was in the one section out of three that was experimenting with using Colonial PCs with 8 inch floppies).
My exposure to the Cyber was in more advanced classes; for one thing it ran a PDP-11 emulator that we used to learn assembler. Then we got to program in CDC assembler on it.
Oh SCRIBE was fun.
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Take heart…Windows improved on this.
(Barely.)
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lol I can’t believe one hasn’t been done about battery life!
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It depends on the device and usage.
Am i the only one who has no problem with battery lol.
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Me too. Maybe it’s because I have a modern new computer. I think many qubes users buy old used laptops. Batteries decay with use. Also if you use battery properly it lasts longer, so avoid overcharging or letting battery run below 5%. Best is it keep it charged between 20% and 80%.
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My battery can last 3 hours no problem. It competes with windows so for me it is pretty decent.
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