RE: Packet Loss

["Muir, Ronald" <rmuir () pathnet net>]

That's mylar punched paper tape for bootstraps.

:-----Original Message-----
:From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:hugh () open com au]
:Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:51 AM
:To: tme () 21rst-century com; Marshall Eubanks; Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu;
:nanog () merit edu
:Subject: Re: Packet Loss
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:Hello all -
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:> 
:>    Real Men use punched paper tape to store programs and 
:load the boot
:> block, after toggling
:> its binary location on the system console register :) The 
:Gods Who Walk
:> Among Us program in machine 
:> code by toggling it in at the console. 
:> 
:> (I still have some punched paper tape somewhere. I remember feeling
:> impressed when I graduated to
:> punched cards. They didn't tend to crack if you had a string 
:of all bits
:> set to one.)
:> 
:> On the other hand, I did tens of thousands of lines of code on IBM
:> punched cards and I never
:> once recall a bug caused by a chad, hanging or otherwise.
:> 
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:Further to my previous post, we used to use punched paper tape 
:as the absolute
:fall-back to boot the acquisition sytem (we didn't take disks 
:to sea back then).
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:We had a heck of a time keeping the tapes dry....
:
:;-)
:
:Hugh
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