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Re: How old are Emacs users?
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Harald Hanche-Olsen |
Subject: |
Re: How old are Emacs users? |
Date: |
Wed, 02 May 2007 19:39:36 +0200 |
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+ stromme@math.uib.no (Stein Arild Strømme):
| I don't think even Harald used any version of emacs on those punch
| cards, although I seem to recall that he did some binary code
| programming, bypassing the assembler..
Not sure that I entered any actual machine code that way, but I think
I did enter some binary data in this fashion, yes. I can no longer
remember why. But I think I screwed it up by having a card in my deck
that was punched 7+8 in the first or second column, which was used in
the card reader to signify end-of-job. Oops.
| Special tricks to enter non-ascii codes on those punching machines.
| Were there Meta and Control keys there, or how did we do it? Did it
| involve backspacing?
Well, there was no ascii. Each column had room for 12 holes being
from top to bottom +, -, and the digits 9-0 (in the /unlikely/ event
that I remember this correctly). To punch several holes in one
column, you could just put a thumb on the card so it wouldn't advance,
and punch away.
--
* Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
- Re: How old are Emacs users?, (continued)
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