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sorting was: The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3894
says... VP approval was normal at the time. The '70s were *bad* economically. They certainly in the fall plan - I put them there. The necessary 9600bps modems were $10K a pair, and...
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says... You must not have taken a tour of the P'ok manufacturing line in '76 or so. Instead of 30-40 systems in final test there may have...
sorting was: The System360 Model 20 Wasn't As Bad As All That 3896
my wife reminded me about the old adage about the children of the cobbler having no shoes. part of the issue ... especially after FS a lot of the top executive possisions had...
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re: 3270 terminal amortized business analysis was done late 70s ... long before rolm and for some drift...
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Brian Inglis Blame it on lack of staff. Normal card filing practice was to have the kiddies file "on top of the rod...
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The practice at our library was to put a red filing flag in front of newly-filed cards for the lead to check. Leaving the cards...
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You lose *some* opportunities for serendipity, but you gain others. In many online catalogs, for instance, the authors, subject headings, alternative breastles, and call numbers are...
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kkt My heart bleeds! Going to the main-entry card and following the tracings found there was a standard research technique and not the least bit impractical, though...
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cp67-cms had a source *update* appliatiion called *update* that used sequence numbers on card images (default field in cols 73-80...
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:42:51 -0600 in alt.folklore.computers, Anne & Using XEDIT and UPDATE with control files was almost as easy as using vi and make with SCCS: nearly automatic source control. IIRC you...
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inserted Now try to imagine proofreading all of those numbers. I'm beginning to think you've never looked...
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This is completely contrary to my experience. Most places verified cards as a matter of policy. The consequences of a...
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deeper previous levels snipped to preserve space ... :) Dear, dear. .. Recall that the high priority rush...
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No, it wasn't. The job was to keypunch the code the programmer needed yesterday. Are you really trying to tell somebody, who did do this work, how she did her job, when you clearly...
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your job. :) :) :) adding the sequence numbers to our KP supervisor, if using the keypunches :) Ahhh so. :) The body of the deck should have...
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Yes you are. You keep slyly changing the topic around. I also worked at another site which was where I handled...
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No, it was a cross-reference utility. I learned early on that a good cross-reference listing was not a luxury, but a...
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Charlie Gibbs Well the IBM Compilers and buttemblers provided very good Xref output, and you could always turn off the...
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Ah, the university environment. BTDT. Once out in the world of real money and real hardware costs, though... That's buttuming ;you could get access to a keypunch. All too often, in my experience, all the...
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This depends on the software your library has slected. If you don't like that: Complain. Get the software which shows adjacent records, text, etc. A number of whiney complaints have been written by guys...
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You may be thinking of Nicholson Baker's article "Discards" that appeared in the New Yorker in 1994. It was also later printed in a book of his essays, The Size of Thoughts. Although he had...
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Yeah that comes from mathematics going back before even Hardy. I am exchanging email with Peter Denning in Monterey about this and my bosses working with...
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Correct. I work with about 10 different computer languages and nearly as many ways of dealing with stuff in an average week. If I didn't, it'd probably take...
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snip In truth I have no solid information about what trade schools teach; what I know is mostly based on...
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This reminds me of a PPOE where we really tightened up the input editing... User: The system is rejecting all of our data! Us: Well, it's full of errors. User: But why can't...
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snip Have you said -- and if not, would you be willing to say -- where your nephew goes to...
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I think teaching people about stacks can be a good thing. But throwing an H-P and a TI calculator may be...
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Well: In FP Brookss' introduction to automatic data processing book, he discusses the IBM mod...
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Are you trying to get work done, or show people differences? Yeah, I know. I had to...
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wrote, in part: Of course, the answer is for a general introductory course to cover all the material which isn't particularly germane to the actual skills the students are going to need from...
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Hm, maybe .... But I wonder how well that would work: It seems like it might be like our...
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snip Okay, that's what I thought .... It seems to me that in many cases it would...
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How is somebody going to know enough to zoom in closer, if they "think" there is only one solution because the...
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Oh right. I was thinking of cases such as a parabola that either touches or crosses the x axis, and it would be hard to tell which with too large...
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This is the PCitis disease and has to do with new money, a.k.a. middle clbutt. Liberal...
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It is sensible to increase emphasis in economics, history, advanced physics, biology etc after you have bootstrapped a country to wealth through mbutt production of engineers. But you cannot get...
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And teachers' unions are fighting this training tooth and nail in this state (Mbutt.). They appear to be winning...
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It boils down to the math. Trade schools often do lots more advanced math than some liberal arts colleges. Math is seeping in there now; though. History and political...
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It boils down to Values. We think less of consequence except in the short term these days. It is true...
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Eugene Miya It is true that education is a bureaucracy like other insbreastutions in US and 1st world society, and it perpetuates...
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I noted: I should note the way to tell if people are Feynman groupies when you ask them or...
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Take into consideration that this comes from an economist who has reliably predicted 5 of the last...
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snip a good explanation of liquid fuel markets-- but they are a dozen nuclear plants are being built...
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Therefore we must make a commoditised nuclear plan that remains safe. Some challenge. Perhaps we can gain 30% by...
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Big city. I spent 2 weeks in the vicinity back in 2000 for my first trip. Did...
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lots snipped... It depended upon the area at DEC... Field Service was a good old boys club a lot longer than it should've been much to the...
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snip Well, and this is one of the things that consistently bothers me about your posts: Are you taking your experience to be a representative sample...
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On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:09:46 GMT, Peter Flbutt Big question was, did Stalin intend to attack Germany if Germany hadn't attacked first. I have just finished reading `Hitlers War', by Irving, and giving...
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Sure. I'm not sure what this has to do with changes in the percentage of physicians who...
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The way it's presented the only females are the token dummies. This is just complete utter bullpoo. There were women when I was going to college. DEC's...
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snip Maybe there are people saying "no women in computing" as exaggeration for effect. Maybe there are people saying it, meaning it, and being wrong. Mostly what I...
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So are men. That is the tenor of your arguments. Are you being coy by setting me up with a "I didn't say that so you...
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snip It doesn't seem logically possible to me that men and women can both be underrepresented, unless you use different definitions of "underrepresented" for the two groups. Maybe I wasn't clear about what I...
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I misread a "seemed to be" as "was", all right, but .... oh well, yeah, maybe it should have been clear: Unfortunately true. Supposedly some companies started figuring that out -- I want to say a...
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They certainly are a drain. You might not see it because it's cheaper to have your lawn cut but you *are* paying for it in your taxes. Illegals...
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How do they get welfare if they don't have a social security number? If they have a social security number, then they are paying taxes in some form. They...
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You ask your congresscritter. The *FACT* is that they do, and preferential treatment, as well. They also vote, so go figure out how that happens. Not much. They...
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