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Re: How old are Emacs users?
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Gian Uberto Lauri |
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Re: How old are Emacs users? |
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Wed, 2 May 2007 12:12:10 -0400 |
>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
PD> Am 02.05.2007 um 11:01 schrieb Stein Arild Strømme:
>> Were there Meta and Control keys there, or how did we do it? Did
>> it involve backspacing?
PD> I don't remember any Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, Shift, or
PD> Backspace key on those teletype like IBM keyboards – how would you
PD> rub out punched holes?
Of course pick some chaff and a bit of glue. Experienced and careful
users used chips with the appropriate coluour and number.
"Cut'n'paste" is not a Xerox invention.
More seriously: in some 1950 books I readed about blackening out with
a pencil the place where a hole should have been. The blackening could
be rubbedo out. This made sense where a punched card was a "record"
with columns (or groups of or even part of) being "fields".
Graphite could be later sensed and use to drive the final punching...
When I found the last civil engineering students operating one of
those, a typing error meant a wasted card...
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Re: How old are Emacs users?, Stein Arild Strømme, 2007/05/02
Re: How old are Emacs users?, Gian Uberto Lauri, 2007/05/02