From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Juanma Barranquero" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 19:03:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178039019 20858 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 17:03:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 17:03:39 +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 Tue May 01 19:03:37 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 1HivlI-0006CB-Ng for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 19:03:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hivrc-0007Qo-0x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 13:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HivrO-0007OD-H2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 13:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HivrM-0007Nk-FI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 13:09:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HivrM-0007Nh-CQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 13:09:52 -0400 Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hivl2-0007ag-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 13:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s17so783852wxc for ; Tue, 01 May 2007 10:03:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QDmyeOYwbsCal3fyux2qR8IfF3rtUC5w0j5ROJWqBhBvN/toGUmHYyF1SrDtTaaoDhH2mvyVJ9jPBPZBAvdpINFXemF1EqulUbzeMGYqZ9W/umFYex4Y0r1ihEhHdcFuDnP9tQ2NQ2pZxdrtgdUdnc0LcwUYylxAWPiX2t5cr+4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ZpZ8Tt1bCFQa+qLTgyLaJjXrcS/nAYUx/pm853Fw6XD5o2C/Zw0AOdSeiV7+eusmeZagtNXzO9E1EhAw04gg7SVgJ8uBiFX/zF8u4cjVZSWKYg0HV9IWKICY9Rd0oAhvHgV0YGh9G+sJP6j3zMpTxQAtuu1UI7hMgOW2Es6kyDo= Original-Received: by 10.90.105.20 with SMTP id d20mr6277360agc.1178038999216; Tue, 01 May 2007 10:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.87.8 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2007 10:03:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:43432 Archived-At: On 5/1/07, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > Oh, come on. Surely, I cannot be the only one here who's been using > punch cards? Rhetorical question really; I know of one other at > least, that I gratuitously insulted a while back in the thread. I used punch cards around 1982; it was old technology even then, as it was the PDP-11 we first-year studends were also allowed to use. From second year on we had access to several VAXen (with VMS, a great OS if I ever saw one). Juanma