Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base

From: Josh Paetzel <josh_at_tcbug.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 22:38:30 -0600
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:54, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 07:40:32PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp
> > wrote..
> >
> >> In message <4405F791.7060707_at_samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
> >>> Bah, I'm so cool and retro-chic that I demand that csup
> >>> communicate to me via morse code telegraph.  You sissy loosers
> >>> with your fancy text consoles are the definition of bourgeois
> >>> oppulence!
> >>
> >> As long as I can feed the input via paper tape, I'm with you
> >> Scott.
> >
> > Only if it has a mechanical reader (with sensing pins for the
> > holes). An optical reader won't do
>
> Y'all are making me feel real old.  I remember asr-33 teletypes as
> my main access to my high schools computer for the first 2 years I
> was there.
>
> LER

Ah yes, the joys of using the infinite-recursion trick to copy your 
program before the paper tape got too worn out to use.

*still have access to a working 33*

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel
Received on Fri Mar 03 2006 - 03:39:50 UTC

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