24 Mar
1998
24 Mar
'98
6:06 p.m.
Which only goes to show that the spirit of curiosity
and challenge that
motivated the rest of us to stay up all night writing code (or playing
Zork) is not dead.
What's even better is that the younger members of this list have
combined
that spirit with a sense of history; they will not be
reinventing the
wheel, but will be building on it.
If you don't know why screens were traditionally 80 columns wide, you
don't
know if it's okay to toss that idea aside should
the technology allows
it.
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24 Mar
24 Mar
5:41 p.m.
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8:30 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great will emerson once stated:
In a couple of previous posts, I believe the DOD computer was referred to as
"Joshua".. Do I have my movies mixed up, or, wasn't it actually WOPA?
Sorry
if this might be considered "off topic"..
Well, if Sam thinks it's okay ... <duck>
Yes, in "Wargames," the military did refer to the compuer as WOPR (War
Operations Planned Response), while the creator of the computer, and to the
hero, it was Joshua (the creator's dead son).
-spc ("Would you like to play a game?")
25 Mar
25 Mar
1:39 a.m.
At 11:41 PM 3/24/98 +0000, you wrote:
Yup. On the PC 80 col screen, you can fit two standard IBM Hollerith cards
(12 rows each card, 24 rows on screen). Neat, huh? I'm working with
Hollerith cards on my system right now with an optical card scanner. Data
storage capacity measured by bytes/pound anyone?
--
David Wollmann
dwollmann(a)ibmhelp.com
Why ARE
screens 80 Cols wide?
Err, because punched cards (at least IBM Hollerith cards) were 80 columns?
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