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That's mylar punched paper tape for bootstraps. :-----Original Message----- :From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:[email protected]] :Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:51 AM :To: [email protected]; Marshall Eubanks; [email protected]; :[email protected] :Subject: Re: Packet Loss : : : : :Hello all - : :> :> Real Men use punched paper tape to store programs and :load the boot :> block, after toggling :> its binary location on the system console register :) The :Gods Who Walk :> Among Us program in machine :> code by toggling it in at the console. :> :> (I still have some punched paper tape somewhere. I remember feeling :> impressed when I graduated to :> punched cards. They didn't tend to crack if you had a string :of all bits :> set to one.) :> :> On the other hand, I did tens of thousands of lines of code on IBM :> punched cards and I never :> once recall a bug caused by a chad, hanging or otherwise. :> : :Further to my previous post, we used to use punched paper tape :as the absolute :fall-back to boot the acquisition sytem (we didn't take disks :to sea back then). : :We had a heck of a time keeping the tapes dry.... : :;-) : :Hugh : :-- :Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server :anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X. :- :Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible, :flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence. : : :
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