3 Feb
2012
3 Feb
'12
5:58 a.m.
Norman Wilson scripsit:
Once upon a time, I made an RK05 disk (5MB) with a
stripped-down
post-V7 for an 11/45. It had just enough programs to allow basic file
manipulation and text-processing.
In my first job, around 1976, I hand-carried an RK05 from New Jersey
to Kansas City. It was full of my employer's proprietary software,
which I was to install. The laternative was to bring a huge pile of
floppies, which didn't seem sensible.
I was able to convince the airline security of those days that they
could neither open the RK nor X-ray it, but when it got there, it was
unreadable anyway. My colleague took the next flight, with the huge
pile.
Due to contractor screwups (when the chilled water was
turned on, it
rained up and down the hall--many poorly-soldered joints in the copper
pipes), [...]
During PM, always mount a scratch machine room!
--
First known example of political correctness: John Cowan
After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the cowan(a)ccil.org
Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643)
issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey,
be banned, and from then on, they were all The Languages of China
to be called Manchus.