2009/8/6 Nico Morrison <microni...@gmail.com> > Hey - I sent my then girlfriend a loveletter on paper punchtape, ASR-33 > Teletype controlling a PDP-11 that ran a Motorola satnav receiver on the > survey boat I was on in Papua New Guinea in 1971, it was probably an 11-23 > and we booted it manually with switches until it could see the paper tape. > > She got someone in the Singapore office to dump out the paper tape and it > must have worked as we married and had kids.
That made me smile. Douglas Adams (Dawkins rest his soul) said he used to wonder what the nerds playing with tickertape at school were up to - finally discovering that it was "running the world". > > > I am of the blase camp as well in this respect - 'plus ca change, plus > c'est la meme chose' - try that in Google translate. C'est n'est pas un courrier électronique. > > > Nico Morrison > > 2009/8/6 Brian Butterworth <briant...@freeview.tv> > > >> >> 2009/8/6 Tim Dobson <li...@tdobson.net> >> >>> Brian Butterworth wrote: >>> >>>> The first version of Unix I used was on a PDP11! When I started doing >>>> system admin for Unix I learnt both System V and BSD. I used XWindows on >>>> Sparcstations! So, I have a rather blaze attitude to "new" versions of >>>> something I have known for a more than a few decades. Sorry... >>>> >>> >>> Gah. I always feel young round here. >>> I can hardly ever join in discussions on vintage computing :( >>> >> [snip] >> >>> >>> I agree with your points, but dispute that it's not nearly there. >>> I dislike this article for several reasons but >>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/06/linux_ubuntu_blog.html >>> if the catalyst has to be the publicity from claiming the UK has 400 >>> linux users, so be it! ;) >> >> >> LOL. And we all know where AH is now. And what he spent his BBC expenses >> on. >> >> >>> >>> >>> Now there are certainly issues encountered there, but he still makes some >>> good points. >>> >>> >>> >>>> How about a BBC Micro 2012 Edition...? FM&T need another impossible >>>> tech project. Be more exciting than "Bang Goes The Theory". >>>> >>> >>> If exciting means "more likely to cause flame wars on backstage than >>> iplayer" then "yes". :P >>> >>> The world does not need new gnu/linux distros IMHO. >> >> >> Yes, consumers probably like stability over endless choice in this >> department. >> >> >>> >>> >>> Tim :) >>> >>> - >>> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, >>> please visit >>> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. >>> Unofficial list archive: >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Brian Butterworth >> >> follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist >> web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover >> advice, since 2002 >> > > -- Brian Butterworth follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
