Re: text file from Linux to windows.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:35:41AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [080529 23:28]:

Back about 1967, the ASR33 was coveted by those of us whose only means
of input and output was the 80-column punch card.

"Output?", you say? Yes. For printed output, you put the deck of
output cards into the card hopper of the line printer -- the chassis
of which was a cube about four feet on a side. But inasmuch as the
printer broke down on a daily basis, you quickly learned to read the
holes in the cards.

I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then,
it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched
cards) before loading the application.


And with such computers, we went to the moon. I mean we generically: I
was a year old in 1967. However, I remember in high-school having
multiple-choice exams where we had to code punch cards with a 4B pencil.

By the time I needed to learn fortran, it was chaper to buy a new IBM
PS/2-70-A21 386 with 4 MB ram, OS/2, and Fortran than it was to buy the
computer time from the university; just barely. When I also had to do
AutoCad it was defintely cheaper even after buying AutoCad.

Of course, I'm typing this on my VT520.

Doug.


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