We are way off topic but as long as we are there I pass this on.
All you old timers know about this. The question is: How do you bury a programmer? For you youngsters the answer is : Face down 9 edge first David K0LUM First started programming in 1960 > On Aug 29, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Wes <wes_n...@triconet.org> wrote: > > Not to forget winning WW1 and WWII. > > I remember punch cards fondly. At Hughes I took a company-sponsored Fortran > IV course. I was in Tucson and the main-frame was in CA. We would do our > coding, punch and submit our cards, the batch would be run overnight and we > would come in the next morning to find out how many typos we made. I wound > up dating one of the key punch girls, and reduced my typos to zero. > > Wes N7WS > > > On 8/29/2020 3:33 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: >> The main reason Phil is that we went to the moon on International Feet and >> Pounds [and an uncountable number of 80-column punched cards and boxes of >> green-bar]. "If it got us to the moon, it has to be good enough for >> everything else." >> >> 73, >> >> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW >> Sparks NV DM09dn >> Washoe County >> >> PS: I wonder how many rolls of toilet paper could have been made with all >> the chad from those cards? >> >> On 8/29/2020 1:06 PM, Phil Kane wrote: >>> On 8/29/2020 5:16 AM, Rich NE1EE wrote: >>> >>>> Even that would be easier if the country just bit the bullet and set >>>> a time limit on moving to metric. Then we'd all be on the same page. >>> The Metric Conversion Act goes back to the Ford administration in 1974 >>> (*). It is enforced slightly less than the Uniform Spitting on the >>> Sidewalk Act that predates it. The main reason that we see it at all in >>> the US is than manufacturers dealing in world-wide markets do not want >>> to have two different production lines, > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to radio...@mchsi.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
