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History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3315
Not quite. A more correct sentence is, "I don't want to believe it." The opinions appear to be one-sided because the hidden agenda of...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3316
First thing to argue about. Professionals just love percentages, until the tot gets below a certain...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3317
Actually it is a law here. If the estate is at that level, then none of the extracirricular rest tax activity...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3318
Charles Shannon Hendrix) writes: In the case of the New Illiterates tm I can see this as an advantage. Most people (at...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3319
Not just that, but the phenomenom where people believe anything that is in print, and...
History of first use of allcomputerized typesetting 3320
the cp67-cms manuals were done in script .... and then i think photo-offset for printing. the 1403 TN printer provided uppercase-lowercase ... and you could get...
PDS Directory Question
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. I don't remember anything but PCP in os-360 release 6 that i was playing with. MFT sysgen option was available by os-360 release 9.5 that I played...
Late 60sEarly 70s Stuckey's stores travel computer promo
Back in the 60s and 70s, Stuckey's used to be a very common roadside store, especially on tourist routes. They were famous for...
guess the date
Tools for creating business programs faster, are on the way. BofA "can of worms" story about replacing aging business software. - Dual runs on new...
People from Dartmouth 3324
Dear NG, My search of DTSS people and where they are now is going slowly as in...
People from Dartmouth 3325
Hi Charles & NG, After I posted my message of yesterday, I found this great little web site: www.dtss.org . It contains two...
Google is full
Phil Payne i was at presentation several months ago about some of the google activity. one claim was that they had reduced the cost of supercomputer by at least 2-3rds. this is...
SarbanesOxley
Chris Mason my claim was that much of the audit paradigm is looking for inconsistencies ... and that if the auditor...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3328
somewhat related blog https:--www.financialcryptography.com-mt-archives-000711.html to some extent paypal was providing...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3329
Cash digital cash smartcards? Bemer, Computer Pioneer,Father of ASCII,Invento My ebay story - I attempted to buy something on ebay using the "buy...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3330
It seems the whole of the US system is making a glorious mess of the "pull" based system...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3331
Our Congress critters at work again. They've forgotten the mess made with S&Ls. I've thought about this. It will only work...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3332
And the "certain minimum" is not zero ? If this is in a separate account, and they misbehave, why not cry "fraud", go...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3333
Of course not. In addition, it is a per account amount and not a per customer amount...this one fries my balls. There are some banks advertising per customer amounts...
Value of an old IBM PS2 CL57 SX Laptop 3334
re: so we annalysed this when we started work on x9.59 in the mid-90s ... and in the x9.59 financial standard, changed the paradigm. a crook with just the knowledge of an account...
rexx or other macro processor on zos
Paul Gilmartin this was standard operation for "sysgen". you would punch up 40-100 cards which specified a lot of parameters for the system configuration (specified as buttembler macros). this was "stage...
blast from the past on reliable communication 3336
Anne & Lynn Wheeler My one comment: I come from a deep real-time background. If someone starts tabulating interrupt latencies or bandwidths, that's something I can immediately bite into and begin...
blast from the past on reliable communication 3337
some more, this time from oct89, also mentions NSWC (naval surface warfare center) and NOSC (naval ocean...
blast from the past on reliable communication 3338
another historical item from the period; part of old corporate XTP position memo (1sep89): Communications Standards Development: ------------------------------------ Position - Oppose for OSI standardization In reviewing...
ALternatives to EMail
there were a large variety of value added networks (VANs) that sprung up ... some as...
Virtual memory implementation in S370 3340
re: i had also done page migration as well as "table" migration ... which were released in my resource manager product ... the blue letter product announcement gives product release as 11may76 ... 30 years ago tomorrow...
Virtual memory implementation in S370 3341
370 virtual memory architecture segment & page tables. 360-67 provided for both 24-bit virtual addressing...
Really BIG disk platters
I recently dug out an old disk platter that's been in my basement for 3 decades to hang on the wall in my new office. It's from...
HELP! 3346
Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj Can we buttume you've done the Standard Windows Repair Strategy of mindlessly re-installing the OS a couple of times and-or the Standard Routine Maintenance Procedure of reinstalling it twice...
AFC Book Listing, Big Update
I finally managed to publish a major update to the AFC Book Listing. This is intended to be a bibliography of books...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3348
Peter Smith For its time, that kind of awkwardness in computers wasn't unusual, especially on low end machines. I believe it was...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3349
Peter Smith Well, it was succesfully used for many types of calculations despite its awkwardness. Some of us still believe that computers...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3350
Arif Khokar All true. But remember, this was a 1954 design intended to be cheap yet functional for a...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3351
Tim Shoppa I don't have the 1976 MS BASIC, but I do have QBASIC from DOS 5.0. Are you saying if I do a SQRT on BASIC I'll get different...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3352
I've referred before to issue in the mid to late 70s about internal availability of 327x terminal requiring vp sign-off approval for each terminal. we did a business analysis that...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3353
possibly at least both? ... in some cases they were reducing elapsed time from concept to showroom to as little as 18 months. in approx. the same time frame, similar foreign companies were...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3354
When I was 15, I got a job programming for the local college (administrative stuff); at which point I got keys to the computer center, including the academic...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3355
I think he said when he was an undergraduate, so it was in college, not in high school, a bit older than a teenager. However, some lucky...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3356
re: i started out taking intro to fortran 2hr Credit Debt clbutt, half-way thru the semester i was trying to write my own fortran program to calculate orbital positions. also about...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3357
A trick used by operators of a 1620 mod I (which had a console typewriter -- the correct model of which I forget, but it had the physical...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3358
John L I came along after the 7love series but I've always been told that compilers on pre-S-360 machines were not so easy to use. First, despite the claims, supposedly...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3359
Much of the "ease of use" improvement had nothing to do with the language or its implementation, and much to do with the dramatic increase...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3360
oh, and for some other random stuff ... an old version of jargon leaked onto the internet and can be found here: for...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3361
on the university's 709, the vast majority of programming was fortran and cobol. clbuttes were all fortran, and most of the departments did...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3362
You can be told many things. Some of them are even true. :-) I am an engineer and I use Fortran as by far my predominant language. Yes, that includes new code. No, I'm not the...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3363
That would be up to the compiler vendor. It is neither required nor forbidden by the standard. Prior to f90, the standard had *NO* requirements for compiler diagnostics. Starting with f90, there are some requirements...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3364
I am an engineer.* I use Fortran, mostly F77 dialect. I also use other computing tools, including Excel. QuattroPro was MUCH better than Excel for years for any scientific computing...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3365
Kevin G. Rhoads It's hard for me to picture a use for a slide rule that is superior to a...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3366
From time to time I do a dog-and-pony show for high-school math clbuttes about the early days of computers...
Britannia no longer rules the waves was: IBM 610 workstation computer
Quote: "Marconi UK : we have stopped making SW transmitters and antennas, our reason for being now...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3368
That's true as far as it goes. Whatever has to be used to get the job done well...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3369
Yeah, the customer on one of my projects literally thinks we LIVE on his site. He gets annoyed bigtime if I don't show up daily. At one point, they wanted us working 16 hour...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3370
My other favourite is when we get a call from a customer insisting that we get their system back up right now because it's...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3371
Philip Nasadowski I've been on both sides of the fence--being a customer of a professional contractor and being the professional contractor. Often times getting...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3372
for lots of topic drift .... week before fall share ('68 boston) meeting, i was suppose to have a HASP discussion with somebody at cornell. I flew into la guardia and then had to go over...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3373
Anne & Lynn Wheeler I visited a DC-3 at an airshow and it was very hot and stuffy inside. I don't know how it was ventilated while in flight, although the air presumably is...
IBM 610 workstation computer 3374
It's not so much comfort as safety (and survival). Not including the aircrew, no US civil aircraft may operate at a cabin albreastude of 15,000 feet MSL unles each...
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