On Jun 28, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > 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 >> Uh, when it happened. >> 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. -- 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.
