Re: Theodore Adorno, a prophet of data systems design

From: Randy Howard (randy.howard_at_FOOmegapathdslBAR.net)
Date: 01/08/04 

Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 05:17:02 -0600

In article <f5dda427.0401072346.3043069@posting.google.com>, spinoza1111
@yahoo.com says...
> (3) I dropped more than one card deck. However, I'd written a utility
> for sequencing all decks produced without exception and specified its
> use so I never destroyed data.

A Hollerith card sorter not being available?

> You could smoke in the computer room. I'm still trying to quit.

Hope springs eternal.

> The problem was NO secondary storage and to implement my idea, I
> realized that to simulate secondary storage, the operator would have
> to stand all day feeding and retrieving punched cards. The punch would
> be punching new cards ALL THE TIME as "pages" were "swapped" to
> cards.

At last an OS design worse than Windows 3.1 is outlined.
 
> I should have explored instead the electronics of interfacing an audio
> tape encoded with digital signals to the 1401 but this would have
> damaged university property.

ROTFLMAO. You should be on Letterman. Really, quit your day job,
be a stand-up comedian. You're a riot.

> You use markers carefully and artistically to show where to insert the
> card decks and you draw a big, black, diagonal line down the deck to
> provide positive proof that it is always sorted.

Duh. Everyone did this. Why did you need to write a utility between
the availability of this trick and the card sorter in the corner of the
punch room? 

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Randy Howard                
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