12 Feb
2004
12 Feb
'04
5:19 a.m.
Whats Cliff doing these days???
Anybody have Cucko's Egg on tape or DVD that they could mail me, I have
the book and its a great read, I've read it about 3-4 times over the
years, but I never got to tape the aired version.
Curt
Fred Cisin wrote:
About 10 years ago, Cliff Stoll ("Cuckoo's Egg", "Silicon Snake
Oil")
visited my office, and told me about a project that he wanted to do of
making an EAM (electro-mechanical) web server, using "cardboard
technology" (punched cards and paper tape).
I gave him a badly damaged core module, a few boxes of cards
and a manual punch.
I don't think that he ever got around to completing his project,
but he was just crazy enough to try.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
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You know what would be *really* cool (and expensive,
and useless...) is
to interface a punch card read/writer so you can punch a google request
card, run it, and have it punch the URLS back out on cards, or print on
paper. Sort of a mixture of far ends of the tech spectrum. It'd make a
great 2 minute sound bite on TechTV.
Oh, what fun!
I'll put that down as Project #327 in the list of Whimsical Things to do
with Old Computers.