The card reader was open until midnight at the U. No so long ago I gutted an old desk size (wide paper) teletype machine to use for a fuel cell carriage. The huge printed circuit card rack area is perfect for fuel cell modules, the huge power supply area can still be used again for a (reverse) power supply, and the desktop is perfect for a controller PC. I welded some heavy steel plate to the original steel frame in case it all blows up. -----Original Message----- From: James Spinti [SMTP:jspinti at dart.dartdist.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:20 AM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: RE: [TCLUG] old guy rants (was vi vs. emacs) | | Ahh.. The sound of a KSR33 Teletype machine-gunning text onto paper at |100cps (ALL UPPER CASE OF COURSE...) The smell of freshly-punched |oiled paper |tape scrolling out onto the floor. | | That's at least two sensory outputs missing from modern computing =:o) | Don't forget the boxes of punched cards that always seemed to have a typo in the middle of them. Or, once you got the typo's fixed, you would invariably drop the box and some of them would get out of order :( But, the worst was standing in line waiting for your job to run, only to get that one page print out that said you had a syntax error on the first card and nothing ran...ah yes, the "good old days" ;) _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list