Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!rt.uk.eu.org!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.159 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.68; '*S*': 0.00; 'used.': 0.09; 'year?': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'stored': 0.12; 'beating': 0.16; 'received:mac.com': 0.16; 'roy': 0.16; 'followed': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'mechanism': 0.19; 'received:10.0.1': 0.19; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'cc:2**1': 0.23; 'cc:no real name:2**0': 0.24; 'mention': 0.26; 'chris': 0.29; 'am,': 0.29; 'dec': 0.30; 'url:mailman': 0.30; 'reflected': 0.31; 'slot': 0.31; 'up.': 0.33; 'worked': 0.33; 'url:python': 0.33; 'but': 0.35; 'disk': 0.36; 'url:listinfo': 0.36; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.36; 'received:10.0': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'received:10': 0.37; 'received:17': 0.38; 'bill': 0.39; 'changed': 0.39; 'space': 0.40; 'url:mail': 0.40; 'how': 0.40; 'then,': 0.60; 'first': 0.61; 'times': 0.62; 'cards': 0.65; 'air': 0.66; 'worth': 0.66; 'smith': 0.68; 'touch': 0.74; 'saw': 0.77; 'article': 0.77; 'header:In- reply-to:1': 0.84; 'heh.': 0.84; 'rack': 0.84; '2013,': 0.91; 'controller': 0.91 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8626,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-05-10_02:2013-05-10, 2013-05-10, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1305010000 definitions=main-1305100078 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) Subject: Re: Message passing syntax for objects | OOPv2 From: William Ray Wing In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:49:11 -0400 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable References: <5167F327.3030803@nedbatchelder.com> To: Roy Smith X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) Cc: python-list@python.org, William Ray Wing X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1368190171 news.xs4all.nl 15871 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:36105 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45094 On May 10, 2013, at 12:55 AM, Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Chris Angelico wrote: >=20 >> The first hard disk I ever worked with stored 20MB in the space of a >> 5.25" slot (plus its associated ISA controller card). >=20 > Heh. The first hard disk I ever worked with stored 2.4 MB in 6U of = rack=20 > space (plus 4 Unibus cards worth of controller). That's not actually=20= > the first hard disk I ever used. Just the first one I ever got to = touch=20 > with my own hands. >=20 Sounds suspiciously like an RK05. We used a lot of those on DEC = PDP-8e's. I can remember how startled I was when I first saw a DEC = engineer pull the top off one and then, with it open, spin it up. The = platter inside was warped (a ceiling light reflected off the platter = wiggled and then blurred) but the head mechanism actually just followed = it up and down!!! Bill > Did I mention that the air filters had to be changed a few times a = year? >=20 > Uphill both ways, in the snow, while beating off the dinosaurs with=20 > sticks. > --=20 > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list