On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Phil Schaffner <P.R.Schaffner at 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! <snip> > 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