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Hello David , 'Whose children ...' & now know it as he has put it into writing & in public I might add ;-) . I think we all are getting (more)grey in the beard & else where . Twyl , JimL On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, M. David Leonard wrote: > Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad, > we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load > them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the > following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that > binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try > to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you. > David Leonard > ShaysNet > (whose children and grandchildren > think he dates from the early Pleistocene) > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 [email protected] wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 EST, you said: > > > In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal > > > machine. > > > > The machine was binary. You grouped in bunches of 3 just to make it easier. > > > > As opposed to the IBM 1620 and similar *real* decimal machines. ;) > > -- > > Valdis Kletnieks > > Operating Systems Analyst > > Virginia Tech > > > > +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | [email protected] | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+
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