[ale] FTP files

[Jim Kinney]

and ANOTHER thread devolves into a geezer reminiscence-fest

back in the day before electricity when we had to actually count the
sheep....

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com>wrote:

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