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On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 EST, you said:
In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal machine.
The machine was binary. You grouped in bunches of 3 just to make it easier. As opposed to the IBM 1620 and similar *real* decimal machines. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad, we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you. David Leonard ShaysNet (whose children and grandchildren think he dates from the early Pleistocene) On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 EST, you said:
In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal machine.
The machine was binary. You grouped in bunches of 3 just to make it easier.
As opposed to the IBM 1620 and similar *real* decimal machines. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad, we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you.
At least *you* had *donkeys*. We carried *our* cuneiform tablets in baskets on our *backs*, through the snow, uphill both ways. Stephen
Jon Mansey wrote:
At least *you* had *donkeys*. We carried *our* cuneiform tablets in baskets on our *backs*, through the snow, uphill both ways.
....barefoot, on broken glass..
You were lucky! When I was a lad......etc etc.
jon
Jason
Blah blah- now I remember why I unsubbed from nanog.... :) -- Scott Solmonson Speedera Networks Inc. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* scosol@speedera.com / C: 408.718.6290
Now that really added something special to the conversation. If you are so uptight or too much of a whipper-snapper to find of humor in this thread, all you have to do is unsub again. Gosh. I remember when I had to rub two sticks together real fast to make a flame. Now I just hit these keys! What will they think of next? On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Scott Solmonson wrote:
Jon Mansey wrote:
At least *you* had *donkeys*. We carried *our* cuneiform tablets in baskets on our *backs*, through the snow, uphill both ways.
....barefoot, on broken glass..
You were lucky! When I was a lad......etc etc.
jon
Jason
Blah blah- now I remember why I unsubbed from nanog.... :)
-- Scott Solmonson Speedera Networks Inc. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* scosol@speedera.com / C: 408.718.6290
John Fraizer wrote:
Now that really added something special to the conversation. If you are so uptight or too much of a whipper-snapper to find of humor in this thread, all you have to do is unsub again.
Gosh. I remember when I had to rub two sticks together real fast to make a flame. Now I just hit these keys! What will they think of next?
Well, no argument on the "whipper-snapper"... But what will they think of next? Hmmmm- how about emoticons: --------------------------------- |
Blah blah- now I remember why I unsubbed from nanog.... :)
Peace- -- Scott Solmonson Speedera Networks Inc. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* scosol@speedera.com / C: 408.718.6290
Hello David , 'Whose children ...' & now know it as he has put it into writing & in public I might add ;-) . I think we all are getting (more)grey in the beard & else where . Twyl , JimL On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, M. David Leonard wrote:
Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad, we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you. David Leonard ShaysNet (whose children and grandchildren think he dates from the early Pleistocene)
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 EST, you said:
In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal machine.
The machine was binary. You grouped in bunches of 3 just to make it easier.
As opposed to the IBM 1620 and similar *real* decimal machines. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech
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