Lombard, David N wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:20:51AM -0700, David Mathog wrote:
Jim Lux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
and, as we all know, real developers
use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls.
You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they
could forget it too!)
Let's not get sloppy here, there is (was) 5-hole (Telex) and 7-hole (TWX,
later renamed Telex II) paper tape.
Back in the early eighties, I had to hunt down an owner of an actual Telex
unit to transliterate a spool of 5-hole to text, so that I could have one
of the secretaries punch that onto 7-hole tape. Early--manual--transcoding :)
You mean you didn't know how to read the tape by sight?
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