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Re: How old are Emacs users?
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Robert Marshall |
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Re: How old are Emacs users? |
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Tue, 01 May 2007 20:12:00 GMT |
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On Tue, 01 May 2007, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Joe Fineman <joe_f@verizon.net>:
>
>| Ah, well, if we're doing prehistory, then I was using TV -- a
>| screen-oriented version of TECO -- in the mid '70s.
>
> Oh, come on. Surely, I cannot be the only one here who's been using
> punch cards? Rhetorical question really; I know of one other at
> least, that I gratuitously insulted a while back in the thread.
> That was in my student days. We got really good with those card
> punches. There was a minor competition going on, trying to squeeze
> the most labour saving tricks into those control cards.
Me2 - I used to be able to use a hand card punch - not those fancy
electronic punches, and the terminals I started out on had paper tape
attachments but I never had the enjoyment of a paper tape splicing
session.
>
> Someone is going to bring up clay tables next.
>
probably
Robert
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Re: How old are Emacs users?, Stein Arild Strømme, 2007/05/02