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* [TUHS] Re: "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS        topic?
@ 2022-07-01 13:31 Nelson H. F. Beebe
  2022-07-01 14:02 ` Steve Nickolas
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 54+ messages in thread
From: Nelson H. F. Beebe @ 2022-07-01 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS

>> I don't know the answer to Ctrl-D.

The Unix command "man ascii" has the answer:

      Oct   Dec   Hex   Char                        Oct   Dec   Hex   Char
       ------------------------------------------------------------------------
       000   0     00    NUL '\0'                    100   64    40    @
       001   1     01    SOH (start of heading)      101   65    41    A
       002   2     02    STX (start of text)         102   66    42    B
       003   3     03    ETX (end of text)           103   67    43    C
       004   4     04    EOT (end of transmission)   104   68    44    D
      ....

Ctrl-D signifies end of transmission.  Some other O/Ses have used
Ctrl-Z for that purpose, presumably because Z is the final letter
of numerous alphabets.

There is a good book about the history of character sets (pre-Unicode)
in the book described at this URL:

	http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.html#Mackenzie:1980:CCS

Bob Bemer (1920--2004), known as Dr. ASCII to some of us, was a key
person in the standardization of character sets:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bemer
	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

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* [TUHS] "9 skills our grandkids won't have" - Is this a TUHS topic?
@ 2022-06-30 13:14 steve jenkin
  2022-06-30 13:39 ` [TUHS] " Marc Donner
                   ` (6 more replies)
  0 siblings, 7 replies; 54+ messages in thread
From: steve jenkin @ 2022-06-30 13:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: TUHS

What are the 1970’s & 1980’s Computing / IT skills “our grandkids won’t have”?

Whistling into a telephone while the modem is attached, because your keyboard has a stuck key
	 - something I absolutely don’t miss.

Having a computer in a grimy wharehouse with 400 days of uptime & wondering how a reboot might go?

steve j 

=========

9 Skills Our Grandkids Will Never Have
	<https://blog.myheritage.com/2022/06/9-skills-our-grandkids-will-never-have/>

	1: Using record players, audio cassettes, and VCRs
	2: Using analog phones 							[ or an Analog Clock ]
	3. Writing letters by hand and mailing them
	4. Reading and writing in cursive
	5. Using manual research methods 				[ this is a Genealogy site ]
	6. Preparing food the old-fashioned way
	7. Creating and mending clothing
	8. Building furniture from scratch
	9. Speaking the languages of their ancestors

--
Steve Jenkin, IT Systems and Design 
0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
PO Box 38, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA

mailto:sjenkin@canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin


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2022-07-01 14:02 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-07-01 15:01   ` Clem Cole
2022-07-01 19:22     ` Phil Budne
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2022-07-01 13:17       ` Matthias Bruestle
2022-07-01 13:36         ` Angus Robinson
2022-07-01 13:58           ` Marc Donner
2022-07-01 14:05             ` Henry Bent
2022-07-01 14:37               ` Marc Donner
2022-07-01 14:41           ` Blake McBride
2022-09-16 17:04         ` Michael Parson
2022-07-02 23:01     ` Mark Sutton
2022-07-03  0:08       ` John Cowan
2022-06-30 19:24 ` Michael Huff
2022-06-30 19:56   ` Jon Steinhart
2022-06-30 20:43   ` Robert Stanford via TUHS
2022-06-30 20:49     ` Chris Pinnock via TUHS
2022-06-30 21:11       ` ron minnich
2022-06-30 21:21       ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-30 21:24         ` Marc Donner
2022-06-30 21:41           ` James Johnston
2022-06-30 21:54             ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-30 22:05               ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-06-30 22:18                 ` Rik Schneider
2022-06-30 22:51                   ` Marc Donner
2022-07-01 10:48                   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-06-30 21:24         ` Chris Pinnock via TUHS
2022-07-01  0:41 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-01  0:46   ` Larry McVoy
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