Subject: Re: Update to documentation
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Oct 24 2000 - 07:52:42 CDT
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Tim Allen wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:05:36 Martin Sevior wrote:
> >
> > I know someone who wrote his Physics Ph.D. Thesis in postscript with a
> > text editor.
>
> Sorry, can't resist :). I know someone who wrote his Physics Ph.D. Thesis on
> punch cards. And no, I'm not making that up.
>
> > You young lads have it easy :-)
>
> When aaah wer a lad... :)
>
Looxury! I used to dream of punch cards. When I wrote my thesis I had
toggle the input switches of a PDP 7 after translating the binary output
of a core dump from CDC 7600 in 6 bit Cyber display code. But try telling
that to young people of today and they won't believe you.
(Appologies for the offtopic post. I could resist my favourite Monty
Python Game.)
Martin
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