From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems?
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:49:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160323064919.GA3766@eureka.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1603231218170.15730@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 12:28:41 +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>
>>> Walking down the corridors of Comp Sci, a student in front of me
>>> dropped his entire deck of approx 2000 cards, all over the floor... I
>>> have no idea whether he got them sorted, but I sure as hell used
>>> rubber bands after that!
>>
>> But that's what the sequence numbers in columns 73 to 80 are for!
>
> Yeah, but it would have cost him too much beer to bribe the comp ops
> into sorting them...
They used to have big, mechanical machines for sorting cards. What
did they call them? Collators?
Greg
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2016-03-18 0:48 Warren Toomey
2016-03-18 2:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-18 3:59 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 5:11 ` Warren Toomey
2016-03-18 17:45 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 8:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-18 8:42 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-18 13:04 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-18 17:12 ` scj
2016-03-18 17:45 ` Random832
2016-03-18 18:02 ` scj
2016-03-21 14:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-21 21:43 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-21 22:57 ` scj
2016-03-21 23:05 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-03-22 0:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 22:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24 0:32 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 0:43 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-03-24 0:47 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 1:05 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-23 1:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-23 1:51 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-03-23 6:49 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2016-03-23 7:02 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-23 7:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-23 13:54 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-23 16:28 ` John Cowan
2016-03-23 8:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-21 11:07 ` Tony Finch
2016-03-21 12:06 ` John Cowan
2016-03-22 0:13 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-03-22 0:48 ` John Cowan
2016-03-18 17:01 ` Pat Barron
2016-03-22 5:21 ` shawn wilson
2016-03-23 0:54 ` Clem Cole
2016-03-23 1:07 ` Clem Cole
[not found] <mailman.1.1458266402.23080.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-18 2:13 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-18 2:36 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-18 2:26 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-22 0:56 Doug McIlroy
2016-03-23 1:58 Doug McIlroy
[not found] <mailman.1.1458784801.4499.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-24 10:17 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-24 11:35 ` Ron Natalie
2016-03-24 11:37 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-24 22:50 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-03-24 23:06 ` Johnny Billquist
[not found] ` <9CBDF635-2FC9-4855-8419-0413EC0336A7@centurytel.net>
2016-03-25 0:35 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 0:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-03-24 19:13 Nemo
2016-03-24 19:54 ` Milo Velimirović
2016-03-26 21:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-26 21:34 ` Charles Anthony
2016-03-26 22:09 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-03-28 20:32 ` scj
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