Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen

I came in with the ASR-33 Teletype that had 8 bit tape. I saw older ones that were
only 5 bits wide. I figured I was styling! I probably have about 1000 miles of punched
tape under my belt. Great fun was the mylar tape instead of paper. You could really
mess folks up by tossing a handrul of mylar punchings on them. I actually repaired a
couple core memory boards for a Data General mini computer. Good times!

Back in '76 me and a friend couldn't move as many GB with a forklift in a day than I
can now fit in my shirt pocket.

Bill Watson
bill@sportpilot.info

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Bill Hobson" <wrhobson@aol.com>
To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:13:56 -0500
Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen

> Do you mean to tell me that there is another human on the planet that
> remembers what punched paper tape was? Holy smokes! (Sorry if this bothers
> anyone for being off-topic, but this is like finding your lost
> birth-mother!)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John A. Price" <japrice@mindspring.com>
> To: <Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 10:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork, Now:Helen
>
> > How 'bout them 45 baud Mod 28 teletypes... I remember installing the first
> > of the automated
> > routing boxes so they didn't have to punch a tape at a routing stating and
> > move it over to a
> > reader to send it out on it's next leg.....
> > John
> > My first computer 1976!
> >
> > On Saturday 02 January 2010 09:49:07 Gary Orpe wrote:
> >> Boy, that goes back in time. I remember marveling over the new 1200 baud
> >> modem that were on 3 plug in cards. Remember 110 baud, TTY days gone by?
> >> How did we ever manage major control systems at that rate? LOL
> >>
> >>
> >> Gary Orpe
> >>
> >> K6DWT (Keeping 6 Dancing Wild Tigers)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> >> [mailto:Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard
> >> Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:51 AM
> >> To: Sport_Aircraft@yahoogroups.com
> >> Subject: Re: Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Was: .....Paperwork,
> >> Now:Helen
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 11:52:48PM -0800, Roger Poyner wrote:
> >> > > Accepted etiquette on the Internet has been to quote and reply as I
> >> > > do
> >> > > for at least the last 30 years. Yes, it's been around that long, and
> >> > > then some
> >> >
> >> > -----Problem is the internet hasn't been around that long.----
> >>
> >> It has indeed. You simply weren't around it then. It was around,
> >> connecting
> >> governments and academic institutions, in the early 1970s (then known as
> >> ARPANET), and switched to the TCP/IP protocols we all use now in 1983.
> >> ARPANET expanded dramatically, and its replacement (in management;
> >> nothing
> >> else really changed) by NSFNET in 1985, followed by NSFNET's opening to
> >> the
> >> commercial world in the early 1990s, produced the INternet we know today.
> >>
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

------------------------------------

Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/

<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sport_Aircraft/join
(Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
Sport_Aircraft-digest@yahoogroups.com
Sport_Aircraft-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
Sport_Aircraft-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/