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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:12:20 EST, "Clarence1898" <cla### [at] comcast net>
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>The IBM engineers had a somewhat different interpretation of
>the its acronym. I can leave that to your imagination.
Well who came up with the acronym AMD (Air Movement Device) for a fan? :-)
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Stephen
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:24:08 EST, "Clarence1898" <cla### [at] comcastnet>
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>I once used a portable terminal with an acoustic coupler to dial into work from
>home. I can't recall if it was 110 or 300 baud. At the time I was quite
>impressed. Now I can't imagine how I ever got anything done.
The TTY I remember was 300 but had a setting for 110.
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
>> In a similar vein, if you are in a building that is on fire (maybe you
>> are
>> trying to rescue your mother's electric drill or you favourite Haskell
>> book) and
>> your earlobes start to tingle. Then it is really time to get out.
>
> I'm curious... what does tingling earlobes signify?
You're about to get struck by lightning?
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Random question on a friday morning
Date: 19 Dec 2008 18:59:07
Message: <494c354b@news.povray.org>
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Stephen wrote:
> And card readers ;)
I have those! Like, SD memory reader.
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Clarence1898 wrote:
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> You would have enjoyed the the IBM 2560 MFCM (Multi-Function Card Machine).
Most probably.
> Card
> reader and punch with two input hoppers, 5 output hoppers all selectable under
> program control.
Sounds very hifi for that time of world. I bet it cost a fair bit of money?
> The IBM engineers had a somewhat different interpretation of
> the its acronym. I can leave that to your imagination.
I assume that the last M stays the same and first M is followed by an o.
For C, I can't be sure if the two letters following it change places or not.
> Isaac.
-Aero
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:59:13 -0200, Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailcom>
wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> And card readers ;)
>
>I have those! Like, SD memory reader.
LOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_card
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Stephen
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From: Jim Holsenback
Subject: Re: Random question on a friday morning
Date: 20 Dec 2008 10:59:30
Message: <494d1662@news.povray.org>
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
news:ltvnk41gu81uo8t686pln2afrc2blh8sh7@4ax.com...
>>Not quite. 1898 was my grandfathers DOB. Though there are days I sure
>>feel
>>like it is. I'm actually on the leading edge of the baby boomers, 1945.
>>I
>>guess more Cretaceous than Jurassic. I
>
> I'm near the other edge, 1950. It makes working out my age easy :)
Haha .... we're just fossils .... ;-)
Enjoying this thread so I'm going to add .....
Had an HP1000 that used paper tape if the boot sector on the hard drive
became corrupted. You should have seen that thing fly through the reader. We
treated it like gold and kept it in a fireproof safe when not being used.
Jim
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Jim Holsenback wrote:
> Had an HP1000 that used paper tape if the boot sector on the hard drive
> became corrupted.
Or the NCR Century-100 that you used the front panel switches to read the
punched card into memory and then jumped to it in order to boot the machine.
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
The NFL should go international. I'd pay to
see the Detroit Lions vs the Roman Catholics.
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:59:38 -0400, "Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom>
wrote:
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>"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
>news:ltvnk41gu81uo8t686pln2afrc2blh8sh7@4ax.com...
>>>Not quite. 1898 was my grandfathers DOB. Though there are days I sure
>>>feel
>>>like it is. I'm actually on the leading edge of the baby boomers, 1945.
>>>I
>>>guess more Cretaceous than Jurassic. I
>>
>> I'm near the other edge, 1950. It makes working out my age easy :)
>
>Haha .... we're just fossils .... ;-)
>
Speak for yourself ;)
>Enjoying this thread so I'm going to add .....
>
>Had an HP1000 that used paper tape if the boot sector on the hard drive
>became corrupted. You should have seen that thing fly through the reader. We
>treated it like gold and kept it in a fireproof safe when not being used.
>
I think I have. The Faci (?)t high speed tape reader I used would throw the tape
about 10 feet across the room.
>
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Stephen
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:01:58 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>Jim Holsenback wrote:
>> Had an HP1000 that used paper tape if the boot sector on the hard drive
>> became corrupted.
>
>Or the NCR Century-100 that you used the front panel switches to read the
>punched card into memory and then jumped to it in order to boot the machine.
The Honeywell 416/316 would either read from tape or cards depending on the
settings you imputer to the switch register. Then would read a loader tape then
the boot tape then the program. I was a wiz at using octal :)
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Stephen
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