On 2003.12.19, 00:24, Carl W. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jill, > >> I'm a programmer, and I'm older than most programmers. I'm old enough >> to remember punched paper tape ... <...> > Yes I worked with paper tape as well. I even worked on one machine > that I would write programs on paper tape loops.
Well, I'm only 34 but I did work with one of these, on a telex machine for terminal. I still keep some reels of tape, punched with my some of high school stuff. Anyway -- it was space for three wholes, the small whole for the tractor wheel, and space for four more, IIRC. |O OoOO | |O oOOO | | OOo O O| |OO oOO | | O o OO| |OO oOOOO| |O Oo OO | |O oOOOO| | OOo OOO| |O OoO | | OOo OOO| |O o OOO| Any bells ringing? Wouldn't this be a nice "complete" set of chars to be encoded, a la Braille patterns?... -- ____. Ant�nio MARTINS-Tuv�lkin | ()| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |####| Rua Alberto Bram�o, 8-1� d.to | PT-1700-132 LISBOA N�o me invejo de quem tem | +351 934 821 700 carros, parelhas e montes | http://www.tuvalkin.web.pt/bandeira/ s� me invejo de quem bebe | http://pagina.de/bandeiras/ a �gua em todas as fontes |
