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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Subject: Re:  2.0 Compatibility
Message-ID: <1991May13.213934.13903@cs.cornell.edu>
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 21:39:34 GMT
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In article <1219@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
>In article <48821@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:
>>
>>(Hey, I had a kid make me feel old the other day, too.  He seemed surprised
>>that I had started out on 8-bit machines...  Hehehehe...  'Course I was
>>lucky enough to miss punch cards and other wonderful things like that...)
>
>I just imagine how hard it would be to explain someone from today what
>a 5-channel punched tape really is...

Oooh!  I used to lust after one of those tape punch/readers, attached to an
ASR-33 teletype!  I thought they were so neat to listen to and watch.  And
when you didn't need a tape anymore, it made a great streamer.  Lotsa fun
at the end of the semester!  You know, I think I still have my first
program on tape somewhere, written on one of the Lawrence Hall of Science's
PDP-11...

They don't make 'em like they used to.  3.5" floppies just don't make great
streamers.

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