I have no idea what you guys are talking about. :-) Cheers, Christine
On Jun 28, 2013, at 9:15 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jun 28, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jun 28, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Stan Halpin <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> P.J. - you are are revealed as a deprived youngster! No paper tape?!? >>> After a one-semester exposure to programming an IBM 1486 (IIRC) Accounting >>> Machine with a big honking 15lb board that was pulled out one end so that >>> jumper connections could be made to instruct the machine to tabulate, >>> multiply etc., I mostly used punch cards. But I did have one year with a >>> GE-teletype system that used paper tape. And of course the Commodore C-64 >>> used cassette tape. Then came floppy discs. I thought I had died and gone >>> to heaven when I started using 3 1/4 discs! Thank you Steve Jobs! >> >> >> You mean, thank you Steve Wozniak. Jobs was just in the room when it happen > > Uh, when it happened. > > >>> At one point, one of the guys in our computer lab (a draftee FWIW, a >>> Radar-type person) had written an OS for our CDC 3300 that allowed >>> fore-ground/back-ground dual processing. He modified our Fortran compiler >>> so that it would properly interact with his OS. I wrote Fortran code to >>> manage the I/O & data capture to/from terminals that were used by subjects >>> in my experiments. To debug my programs, I had to interpret the core dump >>> hex code to find which registers were in what state at the time of the >>> crash. Fun times! >>> >>> stan >>> >>> On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:28 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> >>>>>> ...I don't think I ever used paper tape,... >>>> Actually I used to subscribe to USENET newsgroups at the first company I >>>> worked for that had a direct internet connection, (they also had their own >>>> trunk line from the East Coast to California, you could trace email paths >>>> from my cube in Connecticut to friends at various Universities on the East >>>> Coast, from our office server it would go to our server in California >>>> almost instantaneously, then spent the next couple of hours to a day or so >>>> wending it's way back to the East Coast through various servers. I don't >>>> think I ever used paper tape, and never saw a punch card after graduate >>>> school. Though I did work with 75 baud communications, you could read the >>>> octal on a protocol analyzer in real time. It's a skill I'm glad I've >>>> lost. >>>> >>>> On 6/28/2013 3:02 PM, Gerrit Visser wrote: >>>>> Usenet, dial up modems starting at 300 baud, acoustic couplers, paper tape >>>>> punching/reading at 110 baud. Ah, the memories.... >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for providing another sink hole for my time :-) >>>>> >>>>> Gerrit >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen >>>>> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:43 PM >>>>> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> Subject: Re: PESO Muruga's lunch / first K-5II pic >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:29:42PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: >>>>>> Manual? Hell I find it more disturbing that Larry has Cow-orkers. >>>>>> What are orkers? That he talks to! What are orkers anyway? Sounds >>>>>> more like something that a pig would have not a cow... >>>>> I guess you aren't old enough to remember usenet: >>>>> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html >>>>> >>>>> BTW, the Jargon files are a wonderfully fun timesuck. >>>>> >>>>> Pick a word, and start following interesting looking links in the >>>>> definition: >>>>> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html >>>>> >>>>> You can even learn about such things as scratch-monkeys: >>>>> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html >>>>> >>>>>> On 6/28/2013 10:17 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>>>>>> The K-5II has a manual? A MANUAL! >>>>>>> We don't need no stinking manuals! >>>>>>> Regards, Bob S. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> I was going to read the K-5II manual at lunch, and got chatting with >>>>>>>> my cow-orkers. They were curious about the DA35 macro, so I snapped >>>>>>>> this pic of Muruga's lunch. For sucha silly shot, I think it turned >>>>> out pretty nice: >>>>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9158332052/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> Larry Colen [email protected] >>>>> http://red4est.com/lrc >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>>>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard >>>>> drive failure, and those that will. >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard >>>> drive failure, and those that will. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
