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Article #620801Re: Nostalgia
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:24
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 20:24
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On 2018-02-17, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote: > On Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 7:59:52 AM UTC-7, Peter Flass wrote: > >> I've got an early book by James Martin on "man-computer-interfaces" (I >> guess no women need apply) that covers such things as of the early 70s. >> Martin has a chapter covering Sabre. > > "Human Being-Computer Interface", "Person-Computer Interface", or "Man/Woman- > Computer Interface" would all have been longer; that it was understood to > include everyone, not just males, though, was entirely usual at the time. HCI - Human-Computer Interface On the other hand, an IBMism from the Good Old Days is HDI - Head-Disk Interference (known colloquially as a head crash) -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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X-Received: by 10.223.163.198 with SMTP id m6mr1639939wrb.2.1518899553819; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:32:33 -0800 (PST) X-BeenThere: alt.folklore.computers@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.28.47.71 with SMTP id v68ls859755wmv.6.gmail; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:32:33 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.28.136.67 with SMTP id k64mr1594197wmd.27.1518899553071; Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:32:33 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!n14ni17697wmi.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.unit0.net!peer02.am4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Nostalgia Date: 17 Feb 2018 20:24:33 GMT Organization: NewsGuy.com Lines: 23 Message-ID: <p6a3211a0@news7.newsguy.com> References: <p641l0$7er$1@dont-email.me> <p64v0601vn3@news1.newsguy.com> <p66qpo$88f$1@dont-email.me> <166145f2-701e-42d6-9d80-9f8dbdd101ff@googlegroups.com> <1075262788.540571557.550013.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <73f0079a-1e56-45a4-9e40-11e7da365a5c@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p4f5b1a7ad1b4dd4ac00cb7e4c8b033df828cf3a47f71e583.newsdawg.com User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) X-Received-Body-CRC: 2893298610 X-Received-Bytes: 1794 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit