2011/9/12 Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) <p.tay...@rhul.ac.uk>: > > > maxwell wrote: >> I still have a chance to win, if I can just find my dissertation, which I >> preserved on a 9-track tape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape >> Produced on a CDC Cyber 170/750, with 60-bit words and 12-bit bytes; only >> upper case letters, so lower case letters were encoded with an \E\S\C\A\P\E >> \C\H\A\R\A\C\H\T\E\R. > > "9-track tape" -- ee, these youngsters don't know they're born. > When ah were lad, us used to punch 'oles in paper tape using > grandad's used matchsticks, and littl'uns used to fight > over 'ood get chads (they used 'em to fool their mams > into thinkin' they 'ad dandruff ...). > > Does tha' remember CDC 6400, lad : real machine, that > were : Cyber's didn't come along until I were nearing retirement ... > I did some work on JPR-12, Czech computer, JPR stands for jednotka programového řízení (program control unit). 12-bit bytes, 4 kB of ferrite memory, so its contets was preserved when power failed, 256 input/output ports, no integrated circuits, everything was made just of transistors. When I sent a listing of my assembler program to a teletype, people in the whole building thought that I use a machine gun. > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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