* W B Hacker <w...@conducive.org> wrote: > If you'd ever dropped a deck of punched *cards* you'd have thought paper > tape was a huge advance, and more durable mylar even more so....
Actually, back when I was a little boy, I played a bit w/ some learning toolkit which had spunchcards, for simple things like switching signalling lights, etc (and yes: I managed to build an optical reader, yeah :)). But I wouldn't consider this as "computing" yet ;-o cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
