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[Scott Castaline]

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On 01/23/2013 11:33 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 01/23/2013 10:51 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
>> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>>> I remember the old days when uucp was the way to go.   Also 
>>> with the cu command you had ~get and ~put options.
>> 
>> Oh dear.. memories of UUCP. Once upon a time I built custom email
>> gateways for CC:mail to UUCP and lots of other strange variations
>> of UUCP to old non standardized pre-internet email systems.
>> 
>> At $work, we doing a lot of work with "smart grid" integration, 
>> which does a lot of store and forward file transfers, meters to 
>> collectors to communictions engines to.. databases.. and back 
>> down the chain as well. Every vendor seems to be re-inventing 
>> their own variation of what we would consider UUCP, without 
>> standards to bind the vendors together. It's frustrating, 
>> especially when the 20-something engineer at the metering
>> company thinks he has invented store and forward
>> communications...
>> 
>> I often think studying the history of technology is as important 
>> as the future of technology.
> Like why keyboard layouts still use the QWERTY layout has to do 
> with mechanical typewriters keeping common key pairs from jamming 
> (or least that is the story I have always heard). Too many people 
> learned to type on a QWERTY typewriter that it is easier to keep 
> the layout than to change to another.
>> 
>> Spikey Haired Kid: Why do all these fixed length text files have 
>> to be so narrow with multiple lines and line format indicators?
>> 
>> Geezer: The data format originated on punch cards.
>> 
>> Kid: What's a punch card?
> Ouch, I remember them. How about punched tape?
> 
I remember punched tape. How about toggle switches, rocker switches
and red LEDs.
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