Subject: Re: Update to documentation
From: Larry Kollar (kollar@alltel.net)
Date: Sat Oct 28 2000 - 04:47:06 CDT
Martin Sevior wrote:
>Tim Allen wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>Looxury! I used to dream of punch cards.
Bah! You kids and your computers. When I was in college, I *typed*
all my papers, and I mean *typed* -- on a typewriter! And I wrote a
long rambling fantasy novel *BY HAND* on the back of used computer
paper!
>(Appologies for the offtopic post. I could resist my favourite Monty
>Python Game.)
Why apologize? We all need to blow off a little steam this week. At
work, I'm ankle-deep head-first into an automated documentation system
for one part of our cable data products, when I'm not revising all
the paper docs from the ground up.
Larry
(I actually found that handwritten manuscript a month ago,
and maybe I'll get it into a WP before the paper rots. :-)
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