From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:01:09 -0400 Message-ID: <17978.1861.858883.652607@mail.eng.it> References: Reply-To: saint@eng.it NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178186467 18878 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2007 10:01:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:01:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Harald Hanche-Olsen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 12:01:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HjY7T-0006Eh-8l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 12:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjYDy-0005QL-Fr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 06:07:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjYDj-0005M8-FM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 06:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HjYDg-0005Em-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 06:07:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjYDg-0005Dy-59 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 06:07:28 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.eng.it ([62.101.90.18] helo=mail.eng.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjY7A-00045t-0y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 06:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.eng.it (dioscuri-posta-gb [192.168.99.21]) by deliver.antivirus (Postfix) with SMTP id C935D18024; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:00:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from gastone (unknown [192.168.22.115]) by mail.eng.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F4521800A; Thu, 3 May 2007 12:00:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.98.1 X-attribution: CC X-Zippy: Yow! Legally-imposed CULTURE-reduction is CABBAGE-BRAINED! X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:43581 Archived-At: >>>>> "HH" == Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: HH> Well, there was no ascii. Each column had room for 12 holes being HH> from top to bottom +, -, and the digits 9-0 (in the /unlikely/ HH> event that I remember this correctly). To punch several holes in HH> one column, you could just put a thumb on the card so it wouldn't HH> advance, and punch away. If it was the IBM one, there where characters represented by a double hole if I remember it correctly... -- /\ ___ /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____ //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico \/ e coltivatore diretto di Software