Finally, we've gone completely of the edge in this conversation :-D
It's been great. and I might keep this one in my crafts hints and tips
section - ROFLMAO!!
Jane
--- Bill Gillooly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had a cousin who did papercraft and made Christmas wreaths out of
Javier Perez wrote:
Not sure but I think this may have been some sort of
wide carriage printer that printed on perforated paper
a sheet at a time. Of course I never actually saw it.
javier
Javier
The printer I described printed wide or narrow forms. In once site it
printed credit card
Jane Waters wrote:
I am no longer a member of the fraternity er, the sorority... er, whatever
the club was. And I
am grateful. But this conversation has just brought back so many memories -
both good AND bad. As
Tom said, sometimes it was fun, but most of the nights were just plain hard
also read a lot of technical material from some guy named
Louis L'Amour.
Tom P.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 6:15 PM
To: eos@a1.nl
Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion
Javier Perez wrote:
I knew
--- Javier Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I knew a guy who worked with some sort of IBM
super-printer that was so fast that sometimes the
paper caught fire!
Not sure if that makes me old or youn!
Either that or it was drugs... never saw that one before ;-)
--- Cotty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/09/07, Javier Perez, discombobulated, unleashed:
Wow!
I hadn't noticed. There are some very interesting
people on this list!
And every single one is/was a computer programmer ;-)
I had no idea when I joined this list that it was so riddled with
--- Tom Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1403? Sorry, I didn't use printers that had REAL carriage control tapes, I'm
just a youngster. If it couldn't spill your coffee by raising the lid
automatically when it ran out of paper, it was b4 my time.
I'm sorry to have gotten us so off topic,
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:05:04AM -0700, Javier Perez ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
The interesting thing would be to get the bios of an
old machine like that to work with a 4gb SD! It would
probably take a month to highlevel format the thing!
I once put a ~ 1GB disk to an original IBM PC...
a
I once put a ~ 1GB disk to an original IBM PC...
a SCSI disk, with SCSI adapter that had its own
BIOS.
As I recall it didn't take even all day to format
it,
but running the program the setup was for took
almost three months.
(No, it had nothing to with cameras, let alone EOS.)
--
I had a cousin who did papercraft and made Christmas wreaths out of
punch-cards. She painted them gold and they looked very nice.
Mr. Bill
Bob wrote:
Part ofthe fun of retiring from Big Blue after 40 years is cleaning the
garage and the basement. I uncovered a box of---* 5081s *---
Wow! And all because I mentioned the 40D does batch delete...
To bring it back to EOS, has anyone any idea how fast the 40D can write?
E.g. Sandisk do cards that claim 10, 20 and 40MB per second, what might
be worth paying for?
Thanks, Peter
--
The University of Stirling is a university
I used such printers. Not sure if that makes me old or young!
Thanks,
Francis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Javier Perez
Sent: September 13, 2007 10:26 AM
To: eos@a1.nl
Subject: RE: EOS CF Cards and deletion
I knew a guy who worked
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Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion
We had super fast laser printers. The stuff to be printed was written
with a laser on a drum. Then toner was picked up and stayed where the
laser wrote stuff. Then the toner was electrostatically transferred to
the paper and the static charge
Javier Perez wrote:
As for the printer, All I know is what I heard. I'm
pretty sure it was an IBM printer of the kind you
would have found attached to a mainframe. It was
supposed to be some sort of super high speed printer
that could print as fast as it could be fed or
something like that.
13, 2007 7:08 PM
To: eos@a1.nl
Subject: RE: EOS CF Cards and deletion
--- Tom Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1403? Sorry, I didn't use printers that had REAL carriage control tapes,
I'm
just a youngster. If it couldn't spill your coffee by raising the lid
automatically when it ran out
You are probably right Bob
Unfortunately the fellow
who told me the story
died six years and three days ago.
When he told me I thought about it
for a few seconds, finished my cigarrette
break and went back to doing my stupid my
helpdesk job.
I just got an as-is Nikon D100 in the mail.
It
Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
All joking aside, we did have a print operator once at our Chicago office
who almost lost his arm from a paper cut from an IBM 3800 (which used the
LARGE rolls of paper and cut and stacked it into letter sized sheets.
You learned to stay away from the incoming paper path.
On 12/09/07, Javier Perez, discombobulated, unleashed:
Wow!
I hadn't noticed. There are some very interesting
people on this list!
And every single one is/was a computer programmer ;-)
--
Cheers,
Cotty
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Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
The Next Big Thing when I was a programmer was top down, structured
programming (COBOL and 370 Assembler).
Like Jane, I remember the days fondly, the nights not so fondly, and hardly
ever wish I still had a clue what goes on under the hood.
I was one of the lucky ones. We
!
Tom P.
PS - You also got paid overtime? Sheesh, THAT would have been nice.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:04 AM
To: eos@a1.nl
Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion
Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
The Next
Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:53 AM
To: eos@a1.nl
Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion
Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
So you were one of those guys who came in, completely disassembled a
reader/punch all over the computer
I knew a guy who worked with some sort of IBM
super-printer that was so fast that sometimes the
paper caught fire!
Not sure if that makes me old or youn!
Javier
Javier
http://www.ultragone.net
www.ultragone.net
Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
So you were one of those guys who came in, completely disassembled a
reader/punch all over the computer room floor, and then went to the
lunchroom to read the novel in your back pocket and drink coffee until two
other guys showed up to help you put it back together?
:)
You
Javier Perez wrote:
I knew a guy who worked with some sort of IBM
super-printer that was so fast that sometimes the
paper caught fire!
Not sure if that makes me old or youn!
Javier
Javier
We had super fast laser printers. The stuff to be printed was written
with a laser on a drum.
--- Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tom Pfeiffer wrote:
The Next Big Thing when I was a programmer was top down, structured
programming (COBOL and 370 Assembler).
Like Jane, I remember the days fondly, the nights not so fondly, and hardly
ever wish I still had a clue what goes on under the
Not sure but I think this may have been some sort of
wide carriage printer that printed on perforated paper
a sheet at a time. Of course I never actually saw it.
javier
Javier
http://www.ultragone.net
www.ultragone.net
Hi
Actually ISA IDE cards were very common because the
clone AT board makers did't have much embeded. Some of
those cards could be used in AT or XT mode. The hard
item to find would have been an XT 8 bit card but I
think they may have existed as well. There were even a
few ISA 8086 boards for that
I've used 8 floppies (in a CPT word processor), but
I've never even
seen a 12 floppy, though I did write a program
using punch cards.
I think he may be talking about those removable
platter disks from the old IBMs
Javier
http://www.ultragone.net
www.ultragone.net
--- Bill Gillooly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used 8 floppies (in a CPT word processor), but I've never even
seen a 12 floppy, though I did write a program using punch cards.
Mr. Bill
Oh my, yes sitting at the machine, punching cards, feeding them into the
tiny IBM machine in
the
--- Francis Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Punch tape and ALGOL 60, any takers? We used a
little hammer and a chisel of sorts plus generous
amount of masking tape to fix the coding errors.
There was no keyboard per se. We used rows and rows
of flip switches to punch in the command. You flip
Quite so Francis.
Unfortunately in my case I became too obsessed with
hardware and forgot about most everything else.
Fortran, Assembly, a tad of C, Acad and a couple weird
OSes were all I ever got into. I kinda tuned out when
the object oriented craze started. (I think it's still
going) Instead
: RE: EOS CF Cards and deletion
Careful now!
You don't want to give away your true age!
Javier
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Sent: September 12, 2007 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion
Oh my, yes sitting at the machine, punching cards, feeding them into the
tiny IBM machine in
the carefully air-conditioned room next door, coming back in the morning to see
if your program
--- Francis Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you did feel a sense of control back then. Not this Windows BS. You don't
even know where
the program bombed or how.
Thanks,
Francis
ROFL control of something, but definitely not the machines or the
programming errors! I had
forgotten
Wow!
I hadn't noticed. There are some very interesting
people on this list! I'm 43 and I guess you might
say I collect junk!
Javier
--- Jane Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Francis Zhou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But you did feel a sense of control back then. Not
this Windows BS. You
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier Perez
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:36 AM
To: eos@a1.nl
Subject: RE: EOS CF Cards and deletion
Quite so Francis.
Unfortunately in my case I became too obsessed with
hardware and forgot about most everything else.
Fortran
If you don't know how to program then how do you write the custom
software you need to pull images off the flash card, and then index,
sort, and process them in exactly the way you want?
On 9/12/07, Jane Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ROFL control of something, but definitely not the
Is this seriously an issue? I've shot hundreds of thousands of photos on my
10D, 1D, and 1D.2, chimping heavily and deleting much. Still do and always
will chimp and delete on the fly. Since buying my first DSLR somewhere
around 6 or 8 years ago I have had exactly 1 compact flash card go bad on
Hi Schlake,
CF cards are designed to run circularly through their memory to avoid
wearing out any cells.
I'm not sure that's the reason. The reason is for access time, they want to
keep the files concurrent, as in, no scatter/gather. It's a valid reason,
but causes problems if you have file
On 11/09/07, Javier Perez, discombobulated, unleashed:
Sure when I find a Mk2 parts or as-is for like 1200
like I did my 1Ds! Seriously, there's no way I would
pay more than that for a camera no matter how good or
modern it was!
I had no idea the Mk2 had an sd instead of a cf. I'm
not surprised.
Hi Don,
I wonder if the problem was with the cameras or the CF cards since the
same CF card could be used in a Canon, a Nikon, a Cisco router,
etc. Does the camera, or device that uses a CF card, just present
the file to the CF card? Each might have it's own way of formatting
the data
OK
That makes even more sense. I assume you can use both
slots at the same time. Since IDE supports 2
drives/channel and I guess the sd is acting like an
ide.
Later
Javier
Javier
http://www.ultragone.net
www.ultragone.net
Whew, THAT was trip down memory lane!
One of the young pup at work today was trying to give me a few boxes of
5-1/4 floppy disks from a project many, many years ago.
I told him I've seen (although not used) 8 floppies, and I've even seen 12
floppies.
Ken
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Actually, finding an IDE controller for an ISA card slot would be no easy
task, since virtually all hard drives in the days of the XT were either MFM,
RLL or SCSI (ESDI was too minor to count). By the time the 16 bit bus
appeared in '84, Compaq was using lots of Conner IDE drives in their 80286
I've used 8 floppies (in a CPT word processor), but I've never even
seen a 12 floppy, though I did write a program using punch cards.
Mr. Bill
Ken Lin wrote:
I told him I've seen (although not used) 8 floppies, and I've even seen 12
floppies.
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--- Ken Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the young pup at work today was trying to give me a few boxes of
5-1/4 floppy disks from a project many, many years ago.
I told him I've seen (although not used) 8 floppies, and I've even seen 12
floppies.
I'll go you one better. I DID
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