Paper tape on a PDP/08 and PDP/11! Whee! Watch your bootloader unspooling all over the floor….
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 9:54 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... I do - along with IBM 360 assembler, Fortran, COBOL, RPG III and Apple Pascal. Not paper tape, though, as some here have... Kurt On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Kent, Mark <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Do you guys have punch card experience? Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 9:43 AM To: ntsysadm <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... You and I *are* the same age... Kurt On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Webster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: exactly 40 years ago when i started college for music performance major on tuba, my profs were trying to tell us about the fallacy of "doing too many things at once". no one had a computer yet. webster Sent using OWA for iPad ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 8:40:23 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... It’s been a LOT more than 5 years ago. I remember hearing about it in college, 30+ years ago… From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 9:28 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... Great quote about users: "They're suckers for irrelevancy," Wasn't multitasking identified as an issue 5+ years ago? Or are we now just getting around to scientific confirmation of previous observations? -- Espi On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2989987/it-management/out-of-focus-the-multitasking-dilemma.html Kurt
