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Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary)

From Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary)
Date 2014-03-25 19:38 -0400
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:48:50 -0500, Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>On 3/24/14 6:30 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> {And I recall standard practice was to hit \r, to return the carriage, \n
>> for next line, and one RUBOUT to provide a delay while the carriage
>> returned to the left<G>}
>
>Yes, yes... I remember well, there had to be a delay (of some type) to 
>wait for the horse and carriage to get from the right side of the field 
>to the left.  Aaah, the good 'ol days.
>
	A couple of us managed to "steal" the school login/password (don't
think we ever used it, but...)... The teaching assistant didn't notice the
paper tape punch was active when persuaded to login to let us run a short
program (high school BASIC class, with a dial-up teletype). Playing back
the tape and manually spinning the platen during the password
obscuration/input phase gave us the plain text.
-- 
	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 12:37 +1100
  Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-03-24 02:37 +0000
    Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 14:17 +1100
      Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-23 22:48 -0500
        Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-03-24 19:30 -0400
          Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 18:48 -0500
            Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-03-25 19:38 -0400
              Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 11:24 -0500
              Re: Reading in cooked mode (was Re: Python MSI not installing, log file showing name of a Viatnemese communist revolutionary) Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> - 2014-03-27 11:24 -0500

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