12 Dec
2015
12 Dec
'15
1:22 p.m.
On Dec 11, 2015, at 8:00 PM, Rich Alderson <RichA
at LivingComputerMuseum.org> wrote:
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 10:54 AM
The one question I do have for the older gentlemen on here is what in the world did the
computers without a screen to look at do? Now I know about the tape, cassette tape's
and even the paper with the hole punches in them but what kind of applications were they
use for? Mathematics or? ? ?
On 10 December 2015 at 20:42, Rich Alderson
<RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:
> From: Liam Proven
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:33 AM
>> *I* never delete my emails. I have a
trail back to 1994. So?
> Piker.
Um. I don't know what that means. In UK
English, "pikey" is a highly
offensive pejorative term for a person of Gypsy or Romany origin, or
these days, more generically, a person of very lower-class origins:
"trailer trash". I am guessing you didn't mean that. :-)
So, what, it means I'm very young? I'm
fine with that, given I'm nearing
50. :-D
Two cultures separated by a common language, and all that.
According to the dictionaries of American English which I just consulted, it is
refers to small-time gamblers and others who make limited cash outlays. Hmm.
In nearly 60 years of reading and watching movies and television program(me)s,
the internalized definition I have for it is any person who does something in a
small way. Usually used jokingly. Thus, that your collected e-mail is two
decades' less duration than mine leads to such a description.
Certainly no offense intended.
On the
subject line topic, I read this list via an Exchange/Outlook setup,
[...]
> Simple. Quick. This must be some strange new usage of the words
"simple" and "quick"
that I wasn't previously aware of.
Well, given that I first learned EMACS (to give the TECO spelling) when you
were all of 8 years old, the method I described *is* simple and quick, for me.
Isn't this the Old Geezers club? :-)
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
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Seattle, WA 98134
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