[32865] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Muir, Ronald)
Fri Dec 15 11:55:58 2000
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From: "Muir, Ronald" <rmuir@pathnet.net>
To: "'hugh@open.com.au'" <hugh@open.com.au>, tme@21rst-century.com,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:49:39 -0500
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That's mylar punched paper tape for bootstraps.
:-----Original Message-----
:From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:hugh@open.com.au]
:Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:51 AM
:To: tme@21rst-century.com; Marshall Eubanks; Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu;
:nanog@merit.edu
:Subject: Re: Packet Loss
:
:
:
:
: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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