From: karl@aspodata.se
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Hollerith (was: Seagate hard drives with dual actuators)
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:41:42 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241115084142.9ED3185CAB1C@turkos.aspodata.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3516398.QJadu78ljV@cube>
Peter Humphrey:
...
> I hate to think how many miles of 8-hole tape I wound and rewound. Thank
> goodness we didn't have to cope with 80-column punched cards (Hollerith?) as
> the ivory-tower, batch-processing mainframe people did.
...
Hollerith was the founder of the company which later became IBM.
There are two things named as Hollerith, the cards which later
developed into the IBM 80-col. card, and the constants representing
text/strings/characters in early fortran.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollerith
Fortran was my first language, I still have unpunched cards left,
perfect as bookmarks.
///
Old style secondary storage (boxes of punched cards):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Photograph_of_Federal_Records_Center,_Alexandria,_Virginia_(34877725360).jpg
Regards,
/Karl Hammar
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-15 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-13 23:10 [gentoo-user] Seagate hard drives with dual actuators Dale
2024-11-14 0:46 ` Matt Jolly
2024-11-14 13:05 ` Dale
2024-11-14 7:55 ` Wols Lists
2024-11-14 16:48 ` Dale
2024-11-15 0:18 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2024-11-15 8:41 ` karl [this message]
2024-11-15 9:51 ` Wols Lists
2024-11-14 11:21 ` Michael
2024-11-14 17:00 ` Dale
2024-11-14 19:12 ` Michael
2024-11-14 19:51 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2024-11-14 19:55 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2024-11-14 23:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2024-11-14 20:33 ` Dale
2024-11-14 20:57 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-14 23:10 ` Dale
2024-11-15 0:59 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-15 5:53 ` Dale
2024-11-15 10:09 ` Michael
2024-11-15 11:59 ` Dale
2024-11-15 15:35 ` Michael
2024-11-15 16:36 ` Dale
2024-11-15 22:13 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-16 11:02 ` Michael
2024-11-16 14:36 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-16 19:47 ` Michael
2024-11-16 20:13 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-16 23:21 ` Wol
2024-11-17 11:22 ` Michael
2024-11-17 21:26 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-17 23:04 ` Jack
2024-11-18 0:23 ` Rich Freeman
2024-11-18 2:32 ` Matt Jolly
2024-11-15 10:38 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2024-11-15 12:19 ` Dale
2024-11-14 22:38 ` Wols Lists
2024-11-15 9:35 ` Michael
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20241115084142.9ED3185CAB1C@turkos.aspodata.se \
--to=karl@aspodata.se \
--cc=gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox