From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ekkehard_G=F6rlach?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How old are Emacs users? Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 22:26:49 +0200 Organization: Bluewin AG Message-ID: References: <7dtzuwtmcf.fsf@www.gratismegler.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178142826 4734 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 21:53:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 21:53:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 23:53:44 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 1HjMlb-0006vm-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 23:53:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjMs3-0001ld-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 18:00:23 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XIe+f8niVWjSQgXppXN6X2MS7Uk= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.76.210.68 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.76.210.68 Original-X-Trace: news.bluewin.ch 1178137610 83.76.210.68 (2 May 2007 22:26:50 +0200) Original-Lines: 26 Complaints-To: abuse@bluewin.ch X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.freenet.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.ip-plus.net!newsfeed.ip-plus.net!news.bluewin.ch!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147946 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 May 2007 17:51:16 -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:43550 Archived-At: Petter Gustad writes: > Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > >> 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 > > I used punched cards in 1981/1982. One of my first programs on the > GOULD SEL machine I used for seismic signal processing was to replace > the deck of seven cards to start the batch job and never have to use > punched cards again. > I remember punching cards in the late 70s to feed the CAE 90/40 in our Physics institute. Punching cards, however, wasn't really my favorite. I therefore looked for other ways to produce them. Finally I managed to enter the programs and data into an (sort of) editor on a Telefunken TR440 located in our data center only to let this machine punch them out... As for emacs: just turned 50 and started using it about twelve years ago on a DEC OSF1 box when I did some lab automation work in mass spectroscopy. Still using it every day. Ekkehard