From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Marshall Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 20:12:00 GMT Organization: The first against the wall Message-ID: References: Reply-To: robert$spam0104$@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178053164 17485 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 20:59:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:59:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 01 22:59:18 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 1HizRN-0002G9-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 22:59:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HizXi-0004IL-EY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 17:05:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!feeder.news-service.com!news2.euro.net!news-in.ntli.net!newsrout1-win.ntli.net!ntli.net!news.highwinds-media.com!newspeer1-win.ntli.net!newsfe3-gui.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Home-Page: http://rmstar.blogspot.com/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ri6b7NgCNHJ30rgoIew5V7kKZaU= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.3.159.100 Original-X-Complaints-To: http://www.virginmedia.com/netreport Original-X-Trace: newsfe3-gui.ntli.net 1178050320 86.3.159.100 (Tue, 01 May 2007 21:12:00 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 21:12:00 BST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147853 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 May 2007 17:03:35 -0400 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:43458 Archived-At: On Tue, 01 May 2007, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > + Joe Fineman : > >| Ah, well, if we're doing prehistory, then I was using TV -- a >| screen-oriented version of TECO -- in the mid '70s. > > 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. > That was in my student days. We got really good with those card > punches. There was a minor competition going on, trying to squeeze > the most labour saving tricks into those control cards. Me2 - I used to be able to use a hand card punch - not those fancy electronic punches, and the terminals I started out on had paper tape attachments but I never had the enjoyment of a paper tape splicing session. > > Someone is going to bring up clay tables next. > probably Robert -- La grenouille songe..dans son château d'eau Links and things http://rmstar.blogspot.com/