Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) 
Does anybody still have the issue of Datamation coining the term
"nybble"? If so, would you mind posting the details? Thanks.
 
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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-07 Thread Rick Fochtman 

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For those who are not familiar with it, Datamation used to have some
excruciatingly funny articles, some of which were collected under the
title "Faith, Hope and Parity". I didn't think much of their news
coverage, but the humor was priceless.
 


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I particularly remember their description of the "Postal System Input 
Buffer Device", in one of their April issues.


If you can find a copy of the book "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless 
Evening Gown", it's in there.


Rick

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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-07 Thread Clark Morris 
On 7 Sep 2010 15:14:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>-
>
>>For those who are not familiar with it, Datamation used to have some
>>excruciatingly funny articles, some of which were collected under the
>>title "Faith, Hope and Parity". I didn't think much of their news
>>coverage, but the humor was priceless.
>>  
>>
>--
>I particularly remember their description of the "Postal System Input 
>Buffer Device", in one of their April issues.
>
>If you can find a copy of the book "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless 
>Evening Gown", it's in there.

Speaking of humor, does anyone know if the appendix to the
Westinghouse DOS Dump Restore program is available on-line.  I am
still trying to figure out how it ever got past the legal department.
BJF - Botched Job Foreground is just one of the definitions.  The
error scenario with companies doing research in Filet of Old Gnu was
hilarious.

Clark
>
>Rick
>

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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-08 Thread Joel C. Ewing 
On 09/07/2010 08:32 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
> On 7 Sep 2010 15:14:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
> 
>> -
>>
>>> For those who are not familiar with it, Datamation used to have some
>>> excruciatingly funny articles, some of which were collected under the
>>> title "Faith, Hope and Parity". I didn't think much of their news
>>> coverage, but the humor was priceless.
>>>  
>>>
>> --
>> I particularly remember their description of the "Postal System Input 
>> Buffer Device", in one of their April issues.
>>
>> If you can find a copy of the book "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless 
>> Evening Gown", it's in there.
> 
> Speaking of humor, does anyone know if the appendix to the
> Westinghouse DOS Dump Restore program is available on-line.  I am
> still trying to figure out how it ever got past the legal department.
> BJF - Botched Job Foreground is just one of the definitions.  The
> error scenario with companies doing research in Filet of Old Gnu was
> hilarious.
> 
> Clark
>>
>> Rick

I afraid we finally canned our copy a decade ago, but it was the only
DOS manual we retained after migrating from DOS, and we kept it for the
entertainment value for over a decade after leaving DOS.

As I recall it also had a lengthy, humorous, and irreverent discussion
about how you couldn't believe IBM's track listing utilities because
they lied about the contents of the count fields and displayed what IBM
thought should be there rather than the actual contents, which in some
cases was very significant.

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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) 
In <4c86b8ee.3040...@ync.net>, on 09/07/2010
   at 05:13 PM, Rick Fochtman  said:

>If you can find a copy of the book "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless 
>Evening Gown", it's in there.

It though that the articles there were from The Worm Runners Digest.
 
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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-05 Thread William H. Blair 
Shmuel Metz  asked:

> Does anybody still have the issue of Datamation coining the term "nybble"?

What have you heard or what do you know about that story?

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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-05 Thread Clark Morris 
On 4 Sep 2010 19:11:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>Does anybody still have the issue of Datamation coining the term
>"nybble"? If so, would you mind posting the details? Thanks.
> 
My 40+ plus year old recollection of the article is that they spelled
it nibble and may have also had gulp and swallow as synonyms for
half-word and word.  I don't recall which was the gulp.

Clark Morris

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Re: Datamation issue coining term nybble?

2010-09-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) 
In <02c201cb4d3f$546191f0$fd24b5...@net>, on 09/05/2010
   at 04:14 PM, "William H. Blair"  said:

>What have you heard or what do you know about that story?

I read it, but can't remember the issue. That was back when the S/360
was new and the author didn't quite understand the reason for the
coinage byte, or at least was pretending not to. I suspect that it was
around September 1967.

For those who are not familiar with it, Datamation used to have some
excruciatingly funny articles, some of which were collected under the
title "Faith, Hope and Parity". I didn't think much of their news
coverage, but the humor was priceless.
 
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