Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]
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- From: agroconsultor0 <agroconsultor0@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 03:41:55 -0800
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:43:13 -0500
Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
> >
> > Nope ;)
> > It was the standard IBM keypunch. I spent many hours muttering at it
> > in 1961.
>
> Ok... definitely a bit before my time. Used keypunches my freshman year
> at college (1971) - in a course that took us from IBM 360 batch, to
> 360/TSO, to Multics - but after that, punch cards were primarily a nice
> (and free) source of notecard :-)
>
> Ahh the good old days.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Miles
>
Ho,Ho,Ho, i am a baby then, hp-86 Basic with 51/4 soft disc. 1982.
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