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Hell... I remember the 8" floppies, which preceded the 5.25" floppies and then the rigid 3.5" floppies... I used to use tape drives and card readers...and I don't mean magnetic stripe type card readers... 
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Hell... I remember the 8" floppies, which preceded the 5.25" floppies and then the rigid 3.5" floppies... I used to use tape drives and card readers...and I don't mean magnetic stripe type card readers... |
Damn, punch cards. I'd forgotten about them
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Hell... I remember the 8" floppies, which preceded the 5.25" floppies and then the rigid 3.5" floppies... I used to use tape drives and card readers...and I don't mean magnetic stripe type card readers... |
Wow, card readers, you mean those long thin pieces of thick paper with holes punched in them? My Dad used those, you really are old. I was always amazed going to see him at work and the huge clean rooms. I think the laptop I am typing on does more than those whole rooms did!
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Wow, card readers, you mean those long thin pieces of thick paper with holes punched in them? My Dad used those, you really are old. I was always amazed going to see him at work and the huge clean rooms. I think the laptop I am typing on does more than those whole rooms did! |
Not as old as you'd think...that was only twenty years ago that I was doing much of that...
The laptop I'm on right now would have qualified as a super computer not too many years back... Dual 2.0 GHz processor, 2 GB RAM, 256MB video card, GBE, etc..
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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Dog thread update:
The putrid thread is now down to number six on the cruising thread list. Two weeks and it should be well below the horizon. I present this as empirical evidence that God exists.
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Of course, by stating that, you almost guarntee someone will go post to it.
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I Want To Be An Ass Full O Crap
GIU ! WHY WAS I NOT MENTIONED AS AN ASS FULL O CRAP????
WHY WHY WHY??? AFTER ALL IVE DONE..........
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lets see... the LA 100 DECwriter / typewriter produced one inch tapes. We used them for nc on 6 axis milling machines.
IBM 129, and 029 were the keypunch/verifier machines, and I remember working with a system 34 with 'teapot" drives that we dismounted every night and took them to the safe in the basement.
ahh those were the days.
the tandy color computer 2 which ran IBM OS-9, and then single sided 8 in floppys to run a flavor of unix for the system 16...
Of course, tar, grep, put/get, attrib, atdt^^, ampersand - bang all part of the old world I was a part of in DEC world God how I long for a 86xxVax thats been clustered
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I 'grew up on an IBM 370 machine. The better part of a 1/2 court basketball game in size. Assembler language, anyone ever hear of it? And of course, COBAL. The name of the scientific language of the day escapes me, any help? OH YEA, Fortran, hmmm, how many versions? Watch the card reader go through a stack of cards that enters the code of a program that verifies the correct data format and actually sorts the data with your desired parameters WHOA YEA!!!
You'd be hypnotized well before the card reader was done. Yeap, thems were the days.......
Don
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You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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