RE: Packet Loss

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

In addition to the mylar punch tape the machine was usually an octal
machine.


:   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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