Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1982 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:59 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> [11-18-08 09:07]:
> > You had to craft your own fonts, too??
>
> Hummppp.  We had to hand carve molds for lead type-face to make the
> characters, and boil char and soot to make ink.  I was always glad
> that someone had invented paper, or we would have had to publish on
> tree bark.

You had paper? I still bear the imprints in my chest where we were
forced to list hard copies for use when the system misbehaved. I could
only dream of paper.

-- 
Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

Ramböll Sverige AB
Krukmakargatan 21
P.O. Box 17009
SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden

Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20
Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696

--

"On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament!),
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
  - Charles Babbage 1791-1871)
    English computer pioneer, philosopher

And remember:

It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. 
It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. 
Not impossible, but very unlikely.

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