From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 02:47:03 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1607100243290.65801@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2NBP_SsjYRspmv8zwmFxg__w2mCrJOG0OBsB+u6M+GUPQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Clem Cole wrote:
> In those days many of us, including me, did (and still do) refer to the
> asterisk as "splat" and the exclamation point as "bang" from the sound
> made by them when they printed yellow oiled paper @ 10 cps from the
> console TTY.
I still remember when the pipe command was "^" (pointy hat).
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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-09 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 14:52 Clem Cole
2016-07-08 14:59 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 15:47 ` Nemo
2016-07-08 16:31 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 20:29 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 16:27 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-08 18:00 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-08 18:23 ` Random832
2016-07-08 20:49 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-08 21:09 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-08 21:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 21:45 ` Ron Natalie
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2016-07-09 17:03 ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38 ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
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2016-07-10 1:41 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 1:46 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-10 1:52 ` John Cowan
2016-07-12 17:53 ` Tim Bradshaw
2016-07-12 18:05 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-13 9:24 ` Wesley Parish
2016-07-13 10:09 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-07-10 21:10 ` Sven Mascheck
2016-07-08 17:36 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 11:25 Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-02 0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02 1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-07 5:02 ` [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-07 13:43 ` Nemo
2016-07-07 14:11 ` John Cowan
2016-07-07 14:18 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-07 23:47 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 5:40 ` scj
2016-07-08 7:06 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-08 11:09 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 0:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-09 14:24 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-09 16:38 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 11:20 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 11:54 ` Nemo
2016-07-11 13:15 ` Joerg Schilling
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