From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:41:59 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20100113164159.GD24738@nibiru.local> References: <0a3d54b81b974e0aa16f202e17b2cd3f@yyc.orthanc.ca> <4B0EF3CB.4010601@conducive.org> <20091126233345.GG25437@nibiru.local> <4B0F6425.4040903@conducive.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B0F6425.4040903@conducive.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners] Topicbox-Message-UUID: bea532ae-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * W B Hacker wrote: > If you'd ever dropped a deck of punched *cards* you'd have thought paper > tape was a huge advance, and more durable mylar even more so.... Actually, back when I was a little boy, I played a bit w/ some learning toolkit which had spunchcards, for simple things like switching signalling lights, etc (and yes: I managed to build an optical reader, yeah :)). But I wouldn't consider this as "computing" yet ;-o cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------