[32886] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Packet Loss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Fri Dec 15 21:05:38 2000
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:01:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>
To: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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Hello David , 'Whose children ...' & now know it as he has put it
into writing & in public I might add ;-) .
I think we all are getting (more)grey in the beard & else where .
Twyl , JimL
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, M. David Leonard wrote:
> 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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