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You'll never believe how Schattie describes himself!!
On 05/04/2015 05:42, lal_truckee wrote:
On 4/4/15 5:00 PM, The Real Bev wrote: Somewhere I have a button that says "We can wipe out COBOL in our lifetime." COBOL has a life span analogous to the time required to engineer and build a successful Fusion Reactor. That is, at least 20 years from "now" for all values of "now." Ha, very true. I was still using it in my last job just over 10 years ago. Of course I was writing systems using the IEF CASE tool, but that created COBOL code because the commercial customers wanted an industry standard source code in the event that IEF folded (it hasn't yet). |
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You'll never believe how Schattie describes himself!!
On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:42:45 -0700, lal_truckee
wrote this crap: On 4/4/15 5:00 PM, The Real Bev wrote: Somewhere I have a button that says "We can wipe out COBOL in our lifetime." COBOL has a life span analogous to the time required to engineer and build a successful Fusion Reactor. That is, at least 20 years from "now" for all values of "now." COBOL is dead. It died fifty years ago. This signature is now the ultimate power in the universe |
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You'll never believe how Schattie describes himself!!
On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 12:03:13 AM UTC-4, Alan Baker wrote:
His name was Brad Templeton. No, Alan. His name was Ray Tomlinson, and it was in *1971*. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=120364591 |
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On 05/04/2015 13:51, Dave Stallard wrote:
On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 12:03:13 AM UTC-4, Alan Baker wrote: His name was Brad Templeton. No, Alan. His name was Ray Tomlinson, and it was in *1971*. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=120364591 Epic fail Alan@Baker |
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You'll never believe how Schattie describes himself!!
lal_truckee wrote:
On 4/4/15 1:38 PM, BrritSki wrote: I didn't put sequence numbers in cols 73-80. I only dropped a full 2000 card box once..... The first thing you learn is to diagonally ink mark the cards for a visual indicator of order. I still have, in my collection of useless souvenirs of an illustrious life, a box of punch cards containing a Pascal Compiler for a 360 (IIRC) received from Klaus Wirth's very own hands. Useless, as I said, but I spent many a workweek petting and massaging boxes of such cards. I figure keeping them is like having a fondly remembered pet dog stuffed in the corner of the den. Punch cards were a step up from paper tape. I calculated and provided Vandenberg Titan launch parameters on paper tape in my first real job. Doesn't seem like the Titan long time mainstay launch vehicle would be that old. I still have my first PC in the garage. It was paper tape I/O, built from parts from the dumpster at the place I worked then. It started with an Intel 8008 processor, and I wire wrapped an 8080 processor card to speed it up. A friend wrote a "space war" program for it, which was published in Byte magazine, very similar to the "space war" I saw on a PDP1 in college. The graphic display was an old osscilloscope fed by 2 D/A's into the X and Y inputs. |
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On 2015-04-05 11:51:51 +0000, Dave Stallard said:
On Sunday, April 5, 2015 at 12:03:13 AM UTC-4, Alan Baker wrote: His name was Brad Templeton. No, Alan. His name was Ray Tomlinson, and it was in *1971*. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=120364591 Ooops! You're right. Brad came up with using the dot... http://www.templetons.com/brad/dot.html ....and had one of the very first dotcoms... http://www.templetons.com/brad/clarinet-history.html Oh, and he's on the board of the EFF. :-) |
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You'll never believe how Schattie describes himself!!
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 9:21:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:10:16 -0700, Alan Baker wrote this crap: On 2015-04-03 08:38:28 +0000, said: On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:00:22 -0700 (PDT), Eviel Dewar wrote this crap: Usenet predated the WWW by over a decade. True story. I remember when the www was only text. Before http came along. Usenet was already old. Until http "came along" there was no world wide web. The World Wide Web was created by http and html. Wrong again, baker. I still have the books that show you how to get around by telnet. You're talking to a Class "A" Asshole. All IT wants it to troll for attention. Notice how IT'S ignored on all the other google groups? |
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You'll never believe how Schattie describes himself!!
On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 3:15:46 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 9:21:06 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 10:10:16 -0700, Alan Baker wrote this crap: On 2015-04-03 08:38:28 +0000, said: On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 18:00:22 -0700 (PDT), Eviel Dewar wrote this crap: Usenet predated the WWW by over a decade. True story. I remember when the www was only text. Before http came along. Usenet was already old. Until http "came along" there was no world wide web. The World Wide Web was created by http and html. Wrong again, baker. I still have the books that show you how to get around by telnet. You're talking to a Class "A" Asshole. All IT wants it to troll for attention. Notice how IT'S ignored on all the other google groups? IT'S in IT'S glory now....IT was noticed. Wadda sad little ****. |
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