Re: [9fans] 9p resource sharing [was: Scanners]

[W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org>]

Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * W B Hacker <wbh@conducive.org> wrote:
>> Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:
>>>> linux is actually quite easy and has been for about 12 years or more
>>>> ... not sure of the others.
>>> I was running diskless Windows in 1995; it wasn't pretty, but it could
>>> be done.  These days you can run XP+ diskless if you have the right
>>> Windows Server and installation tools fu.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Don't get me started on diode plugboard 'ROM', mercury or nickel-iron delay
>> lines and 'upgrading' to mag drum memory now...
>
> This is one of the days when this list feels like an veteran meeting ;-)
> I'm probably one of the youngest here, i didn't have the honour to do
> my first steps on punchtapes ;-o
>
>
> cu

Heh!

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....

;-)

Wasn't all that slow, either. Mannesman-Tally punched it at 300 cps and upwards,
many optical readers read it back at over 1,000 cps.