On Mon, Apr 25, 2005, at 14:19 PDT, Dennis Bagley wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:47, Sam Phillips wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2005, at 13:55 PDT, Dennis Bagley wrote: > > > On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 13:26, Brian Chrisman wrote: > > > > You can find them in pretty much any junk store or trash heap > > > > around the country... kinda like punch cards... :-) > > > > > > > PUNCH CARDS???!!!!!!! > > > > > > Shouldn't they have all bio-degraded by now? Or did you have some in > > > Tupperware? > > > > I found a stack in my Dad's garage a few years ago. I can't remember > > where he picked them up, but I sure want a parallel port punch card > > reader to mess around with. > > Sam - it's time for more therapy and an adjustment of your meds. > > Doing away with those %^&* cards was one of the best things that ever > happened in the computer industry. > > You were always at the mercy of some butterfingered turkey who would > > A. Drop the deck > B. Get "cute" and shuffle a few cards > C. Overload the hopper causing it to jam and eat part of your > deck. > > No thank you. > > Punch cards belong in the same trash heap as dentistry without anethesia > and the AMC Pacer.
Hey, I'm just saying that when the world wide alien EMP hits we can still use punch cards in our difference engines. -- Sam Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com/~sam/ San Francisco California _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
