Re: text file from Linux to windows.
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:35:41AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> [080529 23:28]:
> Back about 1967, the ASR33 was coveted by those of us whose only means
> of input and output was the 80-column punch card.
>
> "Output?", you say? Yes. For printed output, you put the deck of
> output cards into the card hopper of the line printer -- the chassis
> of which was a cube about four feet on a side. But inasmuch as the
> printer broke down on a daily basis, you quickly learned to read the
> holes in the cards.
>
> I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then,
> it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched
> cards) before loading the application.
>
And with such computers, we went to the moon. I mean we generically: I
was a year old in 1967. However, I remember in high-school having
multiple-choice exams where we had to code punch cards with a 4B pencil.
By the time I needed to learn fortran, it was chaper to buy a new IBM
PS/2-70-A21 386 with 4 MB ram, OS/2, and Fortran than it was to buy the
computer time from the university; just barely. When I also had to do
AutoCad it was defintely cheaper even after buying AutoCad.
Of course, I'm typing this on my VT520.
Doug.
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