From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harald Hanche-Olsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 09:17:15 +0200 Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178007047 25651 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2007 08:10:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 08:10:47 +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 10:10:44 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 1HinRb-0003kp-LA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 10:10:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HinXs-0000zI-0l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2007 04:17:12 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fiinbeck.math.ntnu.no Original-X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1178003203 9246 129.241.15.140 (1 May 2007 07:06:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 07:06:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.0 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qhsXvUEYm/aggFVLWfeqDWBw6Rc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147826 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 01 May 2007 04:15:35 -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:43429 Archived-At: + Joe Fineman : | Rjjd writes: | |> Joe Fineman wrote: |> ... |>> This trilobite is 69 & has been using Emacs for 20 years. |> |> |> Well, I thought I was the Oldest Member, but Joe has 5 years on me. |> |> I started using emacs when it was TECO. | | 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. Someone is going to bring up clay tables next. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell