On 07/10/2014 07:17 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:47 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Always Learning wrote:
On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:39 -0400, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mark "we won't talk about the month I punch Addressographplates...."
Addressograph plates? That is really ancient ! but they were incredible useful in those days.
Yeah... but did you ever do it, or see it done? Forget the old manual Underwood, this required actual *force* hitting the keys (yes, the machine was electric). No speed, either - the actuator arms had to hit the metal. WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM
Any picts or videos? I am just picturing a room with thosethingies and a couple of Jacob's latters and a Van der Graff while on the background a table with a covered body is being slowly raised to the roof.
"No, not the third switch!"
Sorry mate. The programmers were all busy sitting around the table in the engineers' room playing Bridge (a card game) :-)
Uker when we only had a short break. Pinochle when we had more time.
$1 a hand.