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* Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> [150904 08:15]: |
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> On 03/09/2015 21:46, Francisco Ares wrote: |
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[..SNIP..] |
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> > - there was a teletype |
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> > (remember those?) |
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> Golf balls. Gods, those things made a racket. |
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I think the golf balls you're referencing were the IBM selectrics? |
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[..SNIP..] |
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> Oh no, not punched paper tape. All I remember is thousands of tiny |
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> yellow punched shards that floated everywhere like confetti.... |
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Chads. Just like the hanging chad debacle here in the US. (I never |
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understood why everyone hated chad enough to string him up, but...) |
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> > Thanks for the opportunity for an old story to be remembered. |
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> We old farts here reminisce about every 6 months or so. It usually |
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> starts when someone asks a question like: did you ever work with those |
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> original 8 inch floppies? and the thread goes on for days :-) |
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I still do. Along with teletypes, line printers, PDP-8s, PDP-11s, |
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vaxen, paper tape, 10MB hard drives that weigh 200lbs, etc. |
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All for fun of course. |
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Todd |
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