On Jun 28, 2013, at 8:44 PM, Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> wrote:
> P.J. - you are are revealed as a deprived youngster! No paper tape?!? > After a one-semester exposure to programming an IBM 1486 (IIRC) Accounting > Machine with a big honking 15lb board that was pulled out one end so that > jumper connections could be made to instruct the machine to tabulate, > multiply etc., I mostly used punch cards. But I did have one year with a > GE-teletype system that used paper tape. And of course the Commodore C-64 > used cassette tape. Then came floppy discs. I thought I had died and gone to > heaven when I started using 3 1/4 discs! Thank you Steve Jobs! You mean, thank you Steve Wozniak. Jobs was just in the room when it happen > > At one point, one of the guys in our computer lab (a draftee FWIW, a > Radar-type person) had written an OS for our CDC 3300 that allowed > fore-ground/back-ground dual processing. He modified our Fortran compiler so > that it would properly interact with his OS. I wrote Fortran code to manage > the I/O & data capture to/from terminals that were used by subjects in my > experiments. To debug my programs, I had to interpret the core dump hex code > to find which registers were in what state at the time of the crash. Fun > times! > > stan > > On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:28 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: > >>>> ...I don't think I ever used paper tape,... >> 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 >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> 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/ >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Larry Colen l...@red4est.com >>> http://red4est.com/lrc >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard >>> drive failure, and those that will. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> -- >> There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive >> failure, and those that will. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
