From: Scott Loveless > John Sessoms wrote: >> From: John Graves >> >>> How many people understand the phrase "I just dropped the and >>> sorter is down"? >> >> Face down, nine edge first. >> > My high school was next door to a vocational school that was still > teaching people to feed cards into readers - in 1993! I had a friend > who took the classes and learned early on to never, ever, carry the > cards in hand down the hallways. > > "He died at the console, > Of hunger and thirst. > Next day he was buried, > Face down, nine-edge first."
A few years back, when I went off to college, you could get a telephone in the dormitory suite (4 rooms sharing a common bathroom). The portion of the telephone bill you had to return to *THE TELEPHONE COMPANY* with the payment came printed on IBM punch cards (pre-punched with the account number and payment amount). The dormitory was near the back of the Comp-Sci building where in the basement (dungeon) the university kept keypunch machines available all night long for the students to work on their programs. This was also the era of "Draft Beer - Not Students!" The rest, is as they say, "left as an exercise for the student". -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
