[CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

[rlillard at sonic.net (Raymond Lillard)]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
>>> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole 
>>> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much 
>>> bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big 
>>> event way back when. Then Fortran 4 came around! Be still my old
>>> heart!
>> WAY OT, but since the thread has already been hijacked, can't resist a
>> trip down memory lane...
>>
>> Ah yes, how fondly I remember running FORTRAN from punched tape on the
>> Data General Nova "minicomputer".  At least it was not prone to dropping
>> the 80-column card deck and having to re-sort it.  Then we got the 8"
>> hard-sector floppy drive.  Luxury!  Still had to boot it up with the
>> correct sequence of flips of the front panel switches, but actually had
>> somewhere to save output data as well as load programs - up to 256KB.
>> Did real-time data acquisition using an 8-bit A/D and ran fast Fourier
>> transforms to get frequency domain responses using ASCII graphics on a
>> printer.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_General_Nova
>>
>> Seem to remember an "old farts" thread on this list a while back, so I
>> guess "ole fossils" sounds a bit better. :-)
>>
>> Phil
> I remember numbering on the back of cards with a pencil as a backup when you
> dropped the deck. And of course you numbered by tens just in case you had to
> insert something.

That's why you punch sequence numbers in the
last 8 columns.  :-)