[32864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugh Irvine)
Fri Dec 15 11:46:44 2000
From: Hugh Irvine <hugh@open.com.au>
Reply-To: hugh@open.com.au
To: tme@21rst-century.com, Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:51:08 +1100
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Hello all -
>
> Real Men use punched paper tape to store programs and load the boot
> block, after toggling
> its binary location on the system console register :) The Gods Who Walk
> Among Us program in machine
> code by toggling it in at the console.
>
> (I still have some punched paper tape somewhere. I remember feeling
> impressed when I graduated to
> punched cards. They didn't tend to crack if you had a string of all bits
> set to one.)
>
> On the other hand, I did tens of thousands of lines of code on IBM
> punched cards and I never
> once recall a bug caused by a chad, hanging or otherwise.
>
Further to my previous post, we used to use punched paper tape as the absolute
fall-back to boot the acquisition sytem (we didn't take disks to sea back then).
We had a heck of a time keeping the tapes dry....
;-)
Hugh
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