[32871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (M. David Leonard)
Fri Dec 15 14:29:02 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:28:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Muir, Ronald" <rmuir@pathnet.net>,
"'tme@21rst-century.com'" <tme@21rst-century.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Young people these days have it too easy, Why, when I was a lad,
we had to stay up all night slaving over cuneiform tablets, then load
them into reed baskets on the backs of donkeys bright and early the
following morning for the trek to the abacus room. And none of that
binary or decimal stuff, either - it was straight sexagesimal. But try
to tell the young folks of today was it used to be like and they ignore you.
David Leonard
ShaysNet
(whose children and grandchildren
think he dates from the early Pleistocene)
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 12:53:06 EST, you said:
> > In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal
> > machine.
>
> The machine was binary. You grouped in bunches of 3 just to make it easier.
>
> As opposed to the IBM 1620 and similar *real* decimal machines. ;)
> --
> Valdis Kletnieks
> Operating Systems Analyst
> Virginia Tech
>
>
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