From: David H. Lipman on 6 Apr 2010 17:28 From: "Leonard Agoado" <agoado(a)msn.com> | "Leythos" <spam999free(a)rrohio.com> wrote >> Punch cards, both the 96 and the earlier version as well as having to >> toggle instructions into the "computer" via switches and then >> increment... We've come a long way since those days. | Punch cards using FORTRAN with WatIV and WatV. | Nothing like the feeling of a stack of cards clutched in your hand as | the squeezed middle explodes and scatters upward on your way to the | batch tray. Next two hours on a wide expanse of floor reordering them - | "Here's 0001, now here's 0693, now 0428, oh yeah 0002 after 0001, here's | 1867..." :-) -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: David H. Lipman on 6 Apr 2010 17:30 From: "Heather" <fergie(a)canada.invalid> | "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote >> Heather wrote: >>> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" wrote: >>>> Heather wrote: >>>>> "ASCII" wrote: >>>>>> Heather wrote: >>>>>>> now I will leave it to you to figure out what the 6th time zone is, >>>>>>> lol. >>>>>> Isn't there an 'Atlantic' zone for the far eastern provinces? >>>>> Yes.......but just for 3 of the Maritime Provinces. Newfoundland >>>>> is the 6th zone, being 30 minutes closer to GMT. Can't remember >>>>> why they went this route, but they didn't join up with Canada until >>>>> 1949. >>>> It was a Newfie joke, wasn't it? <g> >>> The Newfies becoming Canadians?? Or their strange time zone, lol. >> Yes. >> <g> | ahhhh, but they picked us over you..........so they can't be all that dumb, | lol. | There are still 2 islands south of Nfld that belong to France, and I would | love to go there. (St. Pierre et Miquelon.....they speak 17th century | Basque French) | XX Figgs REALLY ? I had NO IDEA ! -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
From: gufus on 6 Apr 2010 17:41 Hello, Heather! You wrote on Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:13:48 -0400: H> More along the lines of a *something*........with an insatiable H> curiosity and running out of time to learn it all. Hehehrehe... well don't bash your brain, I have /lot's/ on my plate too, from running a payroll, to pay my staff and the rest of the stuff in my life to deal with. Keep cool... -- With best regards, gufus. E-mail: stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca
From: gufus on 6 Apr 2010 17:42 Hello, David! You wrote on Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:30:41 -0400: DHL> REALLY ? DHL> DHL> I had NO IDEA ! Email tag... you it! -- With best regards, gufus. E-mail: stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca
From: David H. Lipman on 6 Apr 2010 17:44
From: "gufus" <stop.nospam.gbbsg(a)shaw.ca> | Hello, David! | You wrote on Tue, 6 Apr 2010 17:30:41 -0400: DHL>> REALLY ? DHL>> I had NO IDEA ! | Email tag... you it! Nope... YOU it... -- Dave http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |