[ale] FTP files

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

But were they binary, hex, octal, or decimal sheep?   8-)

Ron


Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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