Actually I used to subscribe to USENET newsgroups at the first company I
worked for that had a direct internet connection, (they also had their
own trunk line from the East Coast to California, you could trace email
paths from my cube in Connecticut to friends at various Universities on
the East Coast, from our office server it would go to our server in
California almost instantaneously, then spent the next couple of hours
to a day or so wending it's way back to the East Coast through various
servers. I don't think I ever used paper tape, and never saw a punch
card after graduate school. Though I did work with 75 baud
communications, you could read the octal on a protocol analyzer in real
time. It's a skill I'm glad I've lost.
On 6/28/2013 3:02 PM, Gerrit Visser wrote:
Usenet, dial up modems starting at 300 baud, acoustic couplers, paper tape
punching/reading at 110 baud. Ah, the memories....
Thank you for providing another sink hole for my time :-)
Gerrit
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From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Larry Colen
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:43 PM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: PESO Muruga's lunch / first K-5II pic
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:29:42PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote:
Manual? Hell I find it more disturbing that Larry has Cow-orkers.
What are orkers? That he talks to! What are orkers anyway? Sounds
more like something that a pig would have not a cow...
I guess you aren't old enough to remember usenet:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html
BTW, the Jargon files are a wonderfully fun timesuck.
Pick a word, and start following interesting looking links in the
definition:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html
You can even learn about such things as scratch-monkeys:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html
On 6/28/2013 10:17 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
The K-5II has a manual? A MANUAL!
We don't need no stinking manuals!
Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote:
I was going to read the K-5II manual at lunch, and got chatting with
my cow-orkers. They were curious about the DA35 macro, so I snapped
this pic of Muruga's lunch. For sucha silly shot, I think it turned
out pretty nice:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9158332052/
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