Re: Cemtos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/08/2014 04:51 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Always Learning wrote:
>> On Tue, 2014-07-08 at 16:32 -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>>> 'Ey! What'cho got 'gainst punch cards?
>> Never used the Power Samas 36? column cards, just the plain boring 80's.
> Nope, just the normal 80 column punchs. All IBM, y'know.
>> Was an excellent hand puncher. Could easily read cards by holding them
>> up to the light and could fill-in the wrongly punched hole to avoid
>> having to re-punch the entire card.
> Never heard of a hand puncher. All I ever used or saw were desk-sized
> machines.

The read up on Grace Hopper and how she 'discovered' an unknown opcode 
when a mispunch she glued in with nail polish.  They used hand punchers 
a lot on her programming team.

>> H-1250, H-120, H-L61, H-L66, H-L64, DPS 8 etc. + BBC Micro B & B+
> To catch that error, it took the lab assistant, the *only* time in my
> school career I needed one, to read the actual holes.
>
> Nasty.
>
>       mark
>
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