RE: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

Roger A. Shepherd Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:01:00 -0800

worse than that--dropping the card stack you spent all morning punching in.....

But the magic marker trick – a diagonal stripe across the top of the deck of cards – made it easy to sort without reference to sequence numbers.

Been there – dropped those.

Cheers.

"Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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11/18/2005 20:16

To: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...

Hi $Bill Luebkert -

At 2005-11-18, 14:58:08 you wrote:
>Roger A. Shepherd wrote:
>
>>
>> Try this -- Litton L-3050 with a 16 bit boot register that you set manually
>> with 16 buttons each the size of your thumbprint. The Army bought the
>> hardware 15 years before the development effort got units into the field in
>> 1982.
>>
>> The good old days?
>
>Hardly - clearing core by toggling in the instructions on the front
>panel of an IBM/360 in 1968.
>

- or entering the IPL code ( 32 instructions ) on the front panel of an IBM 3044
at the MIT lab for Nuclear Sicence data center in 1964...and making a boo-boo...

OLD PROGRAMMERS UNITE!!! WE'RE NOT DONE KICKING BUTT YET!!! :) :)

Aloha => Beau;
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2005-11-18

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