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SIONAL LOST FIFTY CONSERVATIVE WHO SIGNED THE TREATY
Not that it makes sense to me...
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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SIGNA (signal loses L (50))
TORY conservative
SIGNATORY who signed the treaty.
(thanks for saving me from having to unearth my Baudot chart!)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nice!
(By the way there is an error in the 3rd letter - it is 11000, which is an O and not G, which is 11010)
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Sorry, I'm a little rusty. I was too lazy to check it for errors. I was using Wordle blocks.
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Hm. Been googling "SIONA" to try and work out what the heck you were up to! That a wasted couple of weeks while the tapes get sent off and come back with your punching errors. (From personal experience a looong time ago...)
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Yep, you are up next.
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Care to explain for us mere mortals
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nope, never did! Learned something new this morning
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Something we oldies started with; in my case via paper tape which was used as the main input on our systems. Take a look at the first picture on row 2 (LEO III/6 and LEO III/7 pics), the paper tape reader is in the foreground. That was the first system I worked on.
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My very first programming class (circa 1976) used a paper punch terminal to write programs in BASIC -- apparently I never learned the paper tape encoding. By the next semester I advanced to 80 column punch cards and UNIVAC assembler.
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We moved from the old LEO system to a Univac 1108 in 1968, and I started learning Assembler when I switched from operating to programming shortly thereafter.
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No I haven't Richard, it was punch cards when I first started
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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We had cards and paper tape when I started. Although paper tape was the primary input medium. There was a room full of young girls, just outside the computer room, who spent all day punching billing information onto TTY tape, which we operators then processed.
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The TTY in the title is a hint... The 'wordle-blocks' are fit the 5 bit nature of the Baudot-code used there...
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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yes, but let's not make a habit of it, eh?
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Sure, part of its being brilliant is of course that it is original AND a one-shot...
Hopefully next CCC is not in Morse
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The semicolon key[^]
This keyboard isn't too old - a few years - but the A, S, Shift, and CTRL keys are worn smooth, you can no longer see the labels. E is fading fast, and you could brush your hair in the reflection from the space bar ... but the semicolon looks pristine!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just bought a new keyboard!
So I am back to being a junior developer!
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Are you implying that ALL the keys should have lettering on them? I vaguely remember that...
My Dell laptop[^] was 3 years old last month...
Stops anybody from borrowing it!
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