maxwell wrote: > 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.
"9-track tape" -- ee, these youngsters don't know they're born. When ah were lad, us used to punch 'oles in paper tape using grandad's used matchsticks, and littl'uns used to fight over 'ood get chads (they used 'em to fool their mams into thinkin' they 'ad dandruff ...). Does tha' remember CDC 6400, lad : real machine, that were : Cyber's didn't come along until I were nearing retirement ... -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
