From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 16 8:13:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7158437B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:13:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 90450 invoked by uid 100); 16 Mar 2001 16:13:39 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15026.15283.444629.772885@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:13:39 -0600 To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) In-Reply-To: References: <20010316105946.B1313@hnet04.kellyhendrix.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jeremy C. Reed types: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Kelly Hendrix wrote: > > PS I don't miss punch cards :) > My mom was a programmer for a Puget Sound university helping with student > scheduling I think. She would often bring home huge stacks of punch cards > which I used for practicing my writing and coloring. (I was three or four > years old.) I am glad I never had to create the cards and use them. Well, I liked using them for note cards. But I also programmed both tracks on the 029 keypunches - one for writing FORTRAN, and one for writing ALGOL. The real kicker was sorority rush at the university. They did the matches between pledges and the houses on card sorters. That's right - it was all mechanical. They were the only people using it, and we'd fire it up once a year, just for them. This was even recently enough we had a unix system on campus. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message