On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 That's it - I'm not speaking to either of you again. You're too old! (So am I - how awkward! :-) mhr