On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:48:39 +0200, Dominik Wujastyk <wujas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Comparative dinosaurism > > Completely by chance today, I came across one of my old files that had a > bunch of 8" floppies in it. Hah! (And I've got a slide rule too.) I > win! > > Dominik
I still have a chance to win, if I can just find my dissertation, which I preserved on a 9-track tape: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-track_tape Produced on a CDC Cyber 170/750, with 60-bit words and 12-bit bytes; only upper case letters, so lower case letters were encoded with an \E\S\C\A\P\E \C\H\A\R\A\C\H\T\E\R. Mike Maxwell -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
