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Member 7989122 wrote: TECO
Yep, definitely TECO. I used it, a lot, on PDP-11's and VAXen(*).
(*) Yes, Ravi, I know that VAXen had EDT. There were special circumstances.
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Real programmers used TECO to edit their Fortran-77 programs.
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Hah! Real programmers used This[^] (Detail[^]) to code FORTRAN!
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Been there, did that, my first two years of college. Punch cards using this[^], rather than the hand punch, but still. I even had to do a couple floor sorts in my day.
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We only had six or eight of those for all four years of the CS course at my Uni so the queue was alwasy hours long - you could write your code on FORTRAN coding sheets[^] and submit them to the "typing girls" who would punch it for you, but they took days to get round to it, and weren't very accurate. So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes!
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OriginalGriff wrote: So I learned to use a hand punch and read holes!
We had a guy in my data structures class who was blind. He knew how to read punch cards by feel. He said it was a PITA compared to Braille because the holes were spread out so far and the holes didn't "register" as well. He would lay a card on a piece of cloth and run his finger over it, feeling the bit of cloth protruding up through each hole.
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Yeah, I used it, too. It was good discipline for writing concise programs. 
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My biggest program at school was something around 2300 cards, which was a bitch to carry around. A standard box was only 2000.
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I'm clearly destined to be the Nominated Driver: half a dozen and all "NO DRINK!"
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OK - I'll have another St Clement's, please. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: embiggen??
NO DRINK
SHAME ON YOU
Unfortunately, I've just got back from the work's Christmas do, so I won't volunteer to take your place. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Another "serious" story:
Several years ago, I saw a short notice in our local newspaper about a guy who had gone wild after consuming about 25 half liters (roughly: 25 pints) of beer.
I mentioned this to a friend of mine, whose father is a policeman. He revealed that this case had caused an argument at the police station: Is it possible to do anything at all - violence or otherwise - after consuming 25 half liters? Some of the police officers are real "beer hounds". One of them insisted that 25 beers should be no problem! So his colleagues told him: On your next night off, you show us! If you do it. we'll pay the beer, otherwise you'll have to pay yourself whatever you can manage.
His colleagues ended up paying for the beer. That is not what impressed them the most, however: This beer hound took sixteen half liters before his first turn to the toilet!
(Maybe not too surprising: After that, his turns to the toilet were quite frequent.)
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You get a drink for "hardware", but not for "software"! What gives? 
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Proposals could propose positive ? point (11)
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Proposals
could propose SUGGEST
positive ? ION
point S
SUGGESTIONS
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Good man you is up tomorrow
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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ChromEdge | CommitStrip[^]
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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We love to hate IE/Edge. It could be the best browser in the world and we would still hate it. If we did like it, people wouldn't take us seriously.
Just like how graphic designers won't admit that their favourite font is Comic Sans.
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musefan wrote: Just like how graphic designers won't admit that their favourite font is Comic Sans.
And all developers secretly love VB??? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Side note: Comic Sans reminds me of the script we were taught to use in High School drafting class. This was back in the Stone Age, when drafting was done by hand not computers.
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To paraphrase XKCD... We should develop a new one that everyone will use.
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