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Article #620708Re: Nostalgia
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:08
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 00:08
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On 3/1/2018 12:54 AM, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Wed, 2018-02-28, Scott Lurndal wrote: >> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> writes: >>> On Tue, 2018-02-27, Peter Flass wrote: >>>> Jorgen Grahn <grahn...@snipabacken.se> wrote: >>> ... >>>>> (Not that I would mind such a discussion. I'd like to know e.g. how >>>>> programming was affected by sitting at a slow serial terminal in the >>>>> 1980s.) >>>> >>>> Or a card reader in the '60s. >>> >>> That too, but I'm personally more interested in the time frame when >>> tools I use today were created: the Unix shells, C compilers, >>> vi/Emacs, troff ... >> >> Card readers were still being used into the 1980s, well after >> the creation of the programs you mention.... > > I know that, but it's irrelevant. I should have been more precise: > I'm not just interested in a time frame, but a certain working > environment. In the same way I'm not (in this context) interested in > what people did with home computers at the time. > By the early 1980's, laser "line printers" (page printers???) were available that printed on form feed paper. The were expensive but they were *fast*!!! Lower case should not be a problem on such a printer... 35 years ago... -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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