On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner P.R.Schaffner@ieee.org wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran 2 to 2D, for disk, was a big event way back when. Then Fortran 4 came around! Be still my old heart!
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Seem to remember an "old farts" thread on this list a while back, so I guess "ole fossils" sounds a bit better. :-)
Phil: Smells better too. :-) I remember the line printers we had, for the IBM 7090's, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090 in the NOC of an Airline Reservation Center. I think they were about 30% the size of our home office. :-) Lanny