Re: Is my card reader supported?

From: Kevin Mark (kmark+debian-user_at_pipeline.com)
Date: 07/20/05

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    On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
    > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:30 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
    >
    > > > > There's no way a card reader will fit into a la
    > > > >
    > > > > Never mind. Showing my age again..
    > > >
    > > > Damned, you know, when I saw that subject, I thought, "Who the
    > > > hell has a card reader in their house? Those things are *huge*
    > > > and noisy... And how would you interface it to a PC?"
    > > >
    > > > At least he didn't ask how to interface a BTAM unit to his laptop.
    > > >
    > > Please keep in mind that not everybody is a native speaker. To me (not English
    > > either) it was quite clear what he could mean.
    >
    > It's also quite clear, I suspect, to those who never experienced the
    > "joys" of the IBM punch card era. My first computer programs were
    > written at a keypunch machine (kind of like a terminal, but the size of
    > a desk) that punched holes in a pile of pieces of cardboard, one 80 char
    > max line per card then handing the pile to a mortal behind a desk who
    > put them into what was then known as a "card reader" -- the portal into
    > the giant 60 bit CDC 6400 supercomputer.
    Hi Glen,
    IIRC when I went the UB in 1985, I learned USCD pascal on a CDC 6000
    although we used terminals like hazelton and VT200? and had an advanced
    single line text editor and then (gasp) a full screen editor (fse)!
    Yipes the old days!
    Cheers,
    Kev 

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