Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:13:39 -0600 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <15026.15283.444629.772885@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103160803220.20562-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net> References: <20010316105946.B1313@hnet04.kellyhendrix.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103160803220.20562-100000@pilchuck.reedmedia.net>
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Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> 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. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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