[32866] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Muir, Ronald)
Fri Dec 15 12:56:43 2000
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From: "Muir, Ronald" <rmuir@pathnet.net>
To: "'tme@21rst-century.com'" <tme@21rst-century.com>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 -0500
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In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal
machine.
: 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.
:
: Regards
: Marshall Eubanks
:
: Multicast Technologies, Inc.
: 10301 Democracy Lane, Suite 201
: Fairfax, Virginia 22030
: Phone : 703-293-9624 Fax : 703-293-9609
: e-mail : tme@on-the-i.com http://www.on-the-i.com
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