and ANOTHER thread devolves into a geezer reminiscence-fest<br><br>back in the day before electricity when we had to actually count the sheep....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Scott Castaline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com" target="_blank">skotchman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 01/23/2013 11:33 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:<br>
> On 01/23/2013 10:51 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:<br>
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
>>> I remember the old days when uucp was the way to go. Also<br>
>>> with the cu command you had ~get and ~put options.<br>
>><br>
>> Oh dear.. memories of UUCP. Once upon a time I built custom email<br>
>> gateways for CC:mail to UUCP and lots of other strange variations<br>
>> of UUCP to old non standardized pre-internet email systems.<br>
>><br>
>> At $work, we doing a lot of work with "smart grid" integration,<br>
>> which does a lot of store and forward file transfers, meters to<br>
>> collectors to communictions engines to.. databases.. and back<br>
>> down the chain as well. Every vendor seems to be re-inventing<br>
>> their own variation of what we would consider UUCP, without<br>
>> standards to bind the vendors together. It's frustrating,<br>
>> especially when the 20-something engineer at the metering<br>
>> company thinks he has invented store and forward<br>
>> communications...<br>
>><br>
>> I often think studying the history of technology is as important<br>
>> as the future of technology.<br>
> Like why keyboard layouts still use the QWERTY layout has to do<br>
> with mechanical typewriters keeping common key pairs from jamming<br>
> (or least that is the story I have always heard). Too many people<br>
> learned to type on a QWERTY typewriter that it is easier to keep<br>
> the layout than to change to another.<br>
>><br>
>> Spikey Haired Kid: Why do all these fixed length text files have<br>
>> to be so narrow with multiple lines and line format indicators?<br>
>><br>
>> Geezer: The data format originated on punch cards.<br>
>><br>
>> Kid: What's a punch card?<br>
> Ouch, I remember them. How about punched tape?<br>
><br>
</div></div>I remember punched tape. How about toggle switches, rocker switches<br>
and red LEDs.<br>
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