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Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)

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First post2026-10-31 21:38 +0000
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  Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-10-31 21:38 +0000
    Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-01 04:30 -0500
      Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-01 10:16 +0000
        Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-01 19:13 +0000
          Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 09:35 -0800
            Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 20:27 +0000
              Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2026-11-02 13:50 -0800
                Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 20:42 -0500
                  Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 02:42 +0000
                Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-03 16:38 +0800
                  Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-03 08:40 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-03 07:29 -0700
                    Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-04 02:02 +0800
                      Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 19:45 +0100
        Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-01 18:17 -0500
          Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2026-11-01 16:45 -0800
            Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-01 21:00 -0500
              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-02 02:16 +0000
                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 04:48 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-02 14:13 +0800
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 06:47 +0000
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-02 20:02 +0800
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 19:48 +0000
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 23:17 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-05 19:37 -0700
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 21:54 -0500
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-06 20:51 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-06 04:24 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 23:31 -0500
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-06 08:46 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-06 07:41 -0700
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-06 14:30 +0100
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-06 20:53 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-07 06:13 +0800
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-07 01:12 +0100
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-02 16:51 +0000
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 20:10 +0000
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 03:56 -0500
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-02 20:03 +0800
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 13:51 +0000
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 19:56 +0000
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-11-04 19:48 +0000
                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 01:28 -0500
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-02 09:41 +0100
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 11:22 +0000
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-02 20:11 +0800
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 13:57 +0000
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-03 00:20 +0100
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 12:45 +0100
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-03 11:49 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 13:02 +0100
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-11-03 13:26 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-03 07:35 -0700
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 18:06 +0100
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 21:52 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:48 -0700
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 21:45 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 21:51 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-03 14:29 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-03 14:28 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-03 22:15 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-03 22:47 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-03 23:18 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 03:12 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-04 08:26 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 01:20 +0000
                                        [OT] Fujitsu Horizon (was: Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 08:19 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Fujitsu Horizon Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-05 09:50 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 09:09 -0700
                                      Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-04 22:59 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 19:10 -0700
                                    Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-03 22:30 -0500
                                      Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 03:57 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-04 16:57 +0800
                                          Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 19:51 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-05 04:48 +0800
                                            Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-06 06:38 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 08:27 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 09:11 -0700
                                        Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-06 06:40 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-04 10:43 +0100
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:54 -0700
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-04 19:59 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 19:04 -0700
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 03:34 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-05 06:27 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:01 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-06 15:45 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-07 11:32 +0000
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 20:29 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:40 -0700
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 19:51 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 19:02 -0700
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-05 15:02 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-05 19:18 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:00 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:57 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 23:04 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-05 19:15 -0500
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 03:23 +0100
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-04 10:53 +0100
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 21:47 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-04 22:22 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:09 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-05 00:14 +0100
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 01:18 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-05 12:27 +0100
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:12 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-05 22:22 +0100
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-05 15:59 -0700
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-06 06:35 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-06 23:09 -0500
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-07 11:45 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-07 07:37 -0700
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-07 22:49 +0800
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-07 14:54 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-07 13:31 -0500
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-08 02:56 +0800
                                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-11-08 21:19 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-07 20:03 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-07 20:56 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-07 21:53 +0000
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-08 01:23 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-04 11:25 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 19:45 +0100
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-05 03:33 +0800
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:05 +0000
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-03 00:08 +0100
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 21:12 -0500
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-03 15:13 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-03 20:27 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-03 21:37 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 23:01 +0100
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 22:18 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-04 11:09 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-11-03 22:51 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 23:02 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-03 22:54 -0500
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-03 23:02 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-03 22:58 -0500
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-07 16:04 -1000
                                      NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-08 05:59 -0800
                                        Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-08 08:11 -1000
                                        Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-08 21:31 +0000
                                          Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-08 13:45 -0800
                                            Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-08 12:21 -1000
                                            Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-08 23:51 +0000
                                              Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-08 20:33 -0700
                                                Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-08 22:59 -0500
                                                  Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-09 07:32 -1000
                                                  Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-09 21:20 +0000
                                                    Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-09 22:07 -0500
                                                      Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2026-11-10 10:37 +0100
                                                        Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2026-11-10 12:22 +0000
                                                          Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-10 06:31 -0800
                                                          Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-10 15:14 +0000
                                                        Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-10 07:35 -0700
                                                          Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-10 18:36 +0000
                                                        Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-10 07:29 -1000
                                                          Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-10 07:55 -1000
                                                        Re: what's a mainframe, NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-10 18:36 +0000
                                                  Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-10 07:09 +0000
                                                    Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-10 07:27 +0000
                                                      Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Alexander Schreiber <als@usenet.thangorodrim.de> - 2026-11-10 10:50 +0100
                                                        Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-10 07:37 -0700
                                                          Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-10 15:18 +0000
                                                      Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-10 10:45 +0000
                                                    Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-10 15:16 +0000
                                                    Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-10 18:36 +0000
                                                Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-09 04:42 +0000
                                                  Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-09 10:01 +0000
                                                Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-09 11:08 +0000
                                              Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-09 15:59 +0000
                                          Re: NYT and Stratus (Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-09 09:38 +0800
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-08 08:32 -1000
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-08 21:32 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2026-11-08 11:55 -1000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-08 21:49 -0500
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-04 15:34 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-04 11:08 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:36 -0700
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-05 00:13 +0800
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 20:58 +0000
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 02:42 +0000
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 02:49 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 02:53 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 04:44 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 07:15 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 20:27 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 23:41 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-04 10:58 +0100
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-04 11:19 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 19:51 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-05 00:19 +0100
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 01:24 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-05 15:48 +0000
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-05 19:17 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 21:52 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-11-03 09:28 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 20:25 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-11-03 20:53 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 21:57 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2026-11-03 22:44 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 23:05 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-04 11:27 +0100
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 09:20 -0700
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:52 -0700
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 21:50 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-05 08:59 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-04 15:36 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 02:42 +0100
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:43 -0700
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 19:51 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-03 21:35 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:32 -0700
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2026-11-04 11:32 -0500
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 18:52 +0100
                                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 19:51 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-05 05:02 +0800
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-05 18:43 -0800
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-06 06:44 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Kaz Kylheku <046-301-5902@kylheku.com> - 2026-11-06 21:29 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-06 04:34 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-06 20:51 +0000
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Kaz Kylheku <046-301-5902@kylheku.com> - 2026-11-06 21:31 +0000
                                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-07 01:22 +0000
                                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-07 05:00 +0100
                                                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-07 04:12 +0000
                                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-07 05:39 +0100
                                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-07 11:37 +0000
                                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-07 06:25 +0800
                                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-04 22:01 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 22:53 -0500
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 07:15 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-03 19:28 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 22:01 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-03 23:41 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-04 01:13 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 12:50 +0100
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-03 14:31 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2026-11-03 19:16 +0100
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-03 07:31 -0700
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-04 02:13 +0800
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-03 05:28 -0800
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 22:00 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-04 15:42 +0000
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-04 03:29 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 04:00 +0000
                                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 04:05 +0000
                              Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-03 23:04 +0000
                                Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-03 23:05 -0500
                                  Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 04:15 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-04 00:14 -0500
                                      Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 18:24 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 06:21 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 07:10 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-04 07:00 -0500
                                          Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 18:28 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking  Speedy too seriously) Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-11-04 16:50 -0500
                                          Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-06 03:02 +0100
                                            Re: [OT] what's a byte, was mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-06 02:44 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-05 19:57 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-05 21:57 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-05 21:57 +0000
                                          Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-05 16:01 -0700
                                            Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-05 23:06 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-06 02:50 +0000
                                            Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-06 15:25 +0000
                                    Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking  Speedy too seriously) Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2026-11-04 16:44 -0500
                                    Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-06 17:30 +0000
                                      Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-07 04:33 +0000
                                        Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-07 07:30 -0700
                                          Re: [OT] what's a mini, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-07 19:40 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-03 15:18 +0000
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 02:59 +0100
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-02 22:29 -0500
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 03:16 +0100
                              Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-11-03 22:23 -0500
                                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-11-04 19:18 +0100
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-04 03:17 +0000
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-04 02:07 +0000
                        Re: [OT] highly reliable upgradable mainframes, Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 03:06 +0000
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 03:54 +0000
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-04 15:54 +0000
                            Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-04 19:51 +0000
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2026-11-02 16:51 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 11:13 +0000
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-11-02 19:41 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-02 17:01 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) "Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-11-03 12:36 +0100
                Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-03 07:10 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-11-03 05:44 -0800
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-03 07:38 -0700
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2026-11-03 22:16 +0000
                      Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Peter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com> - 2026-11-04 07:58 -0700
                        Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-04 21:44 +0000
                          Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2026-11-05 17:13 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-11-03 20:35 +0000
                    Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2026-11-03 21:11 +0000
                  Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2026-11-04 03:09 +0000
            Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 10:52 +0000
              Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2026-11-02 15:35 +0000
          Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 10:47 +0000
            Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-11-02 20:16 +0800
              Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously) The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-11-02 13:58 +0000

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#236265 — Re: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2026-10-31 21:38 +0000
SubjectRe: [OT] Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)
Message-ID<11c5n4b$1f300$4@dont-email.me>
On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:07:47 -0400, jayjwa wrote:

> The DEC systems are more fun, have better docs, and much more
> software.

If you look at all the vintage docs collected at Bitsavers, out of
(currently) about 660GB in total, over 40% is from DEC. Number 2 is
IBM, but the DEC collection is bigger by nearly 3:1.

Number 3 is CDC, at about a quarter of the size of the IBM collection.

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#236273

Fromc186282 <c186282@nnada.net>
Date2026-11-01 04:30 -0500
Message-ID<K2idnW7KxZMmm3r3nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#236265
On 10/31/26 17:38, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:07:47 -0400, jayjwa wrote:
> 
>> The DEC systems are more fun, have better docs, and much more
>> software.
> 
> If you look at all the vintage docs collected at Bitsavers, out of
> (currently) about 660GB in total, over 40% is from DEC. Number 2 is
> IBM, but the DEC collection is bigger by nearly 3:1.
> 
> Number 3 is CDC, at about a quarter of the size of the IBM collection.

   The DEC boxes were GREAT !

   Not entirely sure why they went out of biz - likely
   idiot management. Daddy builds it, Junior TRASHES it.

   Still wish someone would modernize VMS - it was a
   fantastic/powerful system with a ton of prescient
   modern features - could do international internet
   before there WAS an internet.

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#236274

FromThomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de>
Date2026-11-01 10:16 +0000
Message-ID<11c73he$1s1nv$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#236273
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> schrieb:
> On 10/31/26 17:38, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:07:47 -0400, jayjwa wrote:
>> 
>>> The DEC systems are more fun, have better docs, and much more
>>> software.
>> 
>> If you look at all the vintage docs collected at Bitsavers, out of
>> (currently) about 660GB in total, over 40% is from DEC. Number 2 is
>> IBM, but the DEC collection is bigger by nearly 3:1.
>> 
>> Number 3 is CDC, at about a quarter of the size of the IBM collection.
>
>    The DEC boxes were GREAT !
>
>    Not entirely sure why they went out of biz - likely
>    idiot management. Daddy builds it, Junior TRASHES it.

Daddy built it, daddy trashed it (Ken Olsen, he was responsible
for both).

If you are interested, you could look up "DEC is Dead, Long Live
DEC", an excellent book.

>    Still wish someone would modernize VMS - it was a
>    fantastic/powerful system with a ton of prescient
>    modern features - could do international internet
>    before there WAS an internet.

Somebody is trying to do so (see https://vmssoftware.com/) but
that particular train has left the station a long time ago.

-- 
This USENET posting was made without artificial intelligence,
artificial impertinence, artificial arrogance, artificial stupidity,
artificial flavorings or artificial colorants.

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#236277

FromLawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Date2026-11-01 19:13 +0000
Message-ID<11c8319$2845p$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#236274
On Sun, 1 Nov 2026 10:16:14 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:

> Daddy built it, daddy trashed it (Ken Olsen, he was responsible
> for both).

If you talk to the staff who worked under him, you won’t find anybody
with a bad word to say about him. He looked after his people well.

But, he was very much a Unix-hater, describing it as “snake oil” at
one point.

After he was ousted, the asset-strippers took charge.

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#236321

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2026-11-02 09:35 -0800
Message-ID<20261102093506.00007a34@gmail.com>
In reply to#236277
On Sun, 1 Nov 2026 19:13:45 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> > Daddy built it, daddy trashed it (Ken Olsen, he was responsible
> > for both).  
> 
> If you talk to the staff who worked under him, you won’t find anybody
> with a bad word to say about him. He looked after his people well.
> 
> But, he was very much a Unix-hater, describing it as “snake oil” at
> one point.
> 
> After he was ousted, the asset-strippers took charge.

Yeah, the impression I've gotten is that Olsen was less the kind of Bad
Management that drove e.g. Commodore into the ground and more just the
type who made a couple critical misjudgements about where the industry
was headed that ultimately doomed them. He was also uninterested in the
microcomputer market, as most of the Big Players were at the time, but
DEC was even later to that than IBM, lacked the cachet with non-techie
Management that they had.

And on top of that, the Rainbow was a dud: more expensive than the IBM
PC for similar specs with only somewhat more flexible graphics and CP/M
compatibility as its advantages. The Professional at least offered one
of DEC's own architecture, but it was over *twice* the price of the PC.

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#236329

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2026-11-02 20:27 +0000
Message-ID<nksa1cF2rmsU6@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#236321
On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 09:35:06 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> And on top of that, the Rainbow was a dud: more expensive than the IBM
> PC for similar specs with only somewhat more flexible graphics and CP/M
> compatibility as its advantages. The Professional at least offered one
> of DEC's own architecture, but it was over *twice* the price of the PC.

It wasn't fatal but IBM's RS/6000 had the same problem. The Y2K patches 
were only for newer systems. Our clients looked at the cost of replacing 
their existing machines and switched to PCs. Windows 2000 Server came at 
just the right time.

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#236331

FromJohn Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
Date2026-11-02 13:50 -0800
Message-ID<20261102135002.00005bcb@gmail.com>
In reply to#236329
On 2 Nov 2026 20:27:24 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> > And on top of that, the Rainbow was a dud: more expensive than the
> > IBM PC for similar specs with only somewhat more flexible graphics
> > and CP/M compatibility as its advantages. The Professional at least
> > offered one of DEC's own architecture, but it was over *twice* the
> > price of the PC.  
> 
> It wasn't fatal but IBM's RS/6000 had the same problem. The Y2K
> patches were only for newer systems. Our clients looked at the cost
> of replacing their existing machines and switched to PCs. Windows
> 2000 Server came at just the right time.

The whole "workstation" class was vulnerable to this; the assumption
that business customers with a need for personal computers would pay
kilobucks to get the Best Of The Best got shakier and shakier as the
vendors' technical/performance lead was eroded by Intel's dogged per-
sistence and Apple's piggybacking off IBM & Motorola's own R&D efforts
and the commerical Unix vendors tried with decidedly mixed success to
follow changing preferences in UI design, 'til it finally completely
imploded sometime in the mid-'00s.

(In particular, only NeXT and SGI showed any understanding of what
separates a technically-functional GUI environment from a genuinely
*nice* one, whereas MacOS had one from the get-go and MS had more-or-
less gotten the wrinkles ironed out by Win95; unless their employees
truly needed bleeding-edge performance or one of the increasingly rare
*nix-only software suites for line-of-business purposes, why on Earth
would a company drop $$$ for Tru64/AIX/Solaris/HP-UX with CDE on top
when they could get the job done with a PC or Mac for $$ and get a less
grody user experience into the bargain?)

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#236342

Fromc186282 <c186282@nnada.net>
Date2026-11-02 20:42 -0500
Message-ID<ypmdndD4s-uIoXT3nZ2dnZfqnPSdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#236331
On 11/2/26 16:50, John Ames wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2026 20:27:24 GMT
> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> 
>>> And on top of that, the Rainbow was a dud: more expensive than the
>>> IBM PC for similar specs with only somewhat more flexible graphics
>>> and CP/M compatibility as its advantages. The Professional at least
>>> offered one of DEC's own architecture, but it was over *twice* the
>>> price of the PC.
>>
>> It wasn't fatal but IBM's RS/6000 had the same problem. The Y2K
>> patches were only for newer systems. Our clients looked at the cost
>> of replacing their existing machines and switched to PCs. Windows
>> 2000 Server came at just the right time.
> 
> The whole "workstation" class was vulnerable to this; the assumption
> that business customers with a need for personal computers would pay
> kilobucks to get the Best Of The Best got shakier and shakier as the
> vendors' technical/performance lead was eroded by Intel's dogged per-
> sistence and Apple's piggybacking off IBM & Motorola's own R&D efforts
> and the commerical Unix vendors tried with decidedly mixed success to
> follow changing preferences in UI design, 'til it finally completely
> imploded sometime in the mid-'00s.

   Sometimes attributed to Stalin - "Quantity has a
   quality all of its own".

   If you can buy a bunch of 'regular PCs' for the
   price of one, or even just upgrading one, flagship
   box from DEC or IBM or whomever .....

> (In particular, only NeXT and SGI showed any understanding of what
> separates a technically-functional GUI environment from a genuinely
> *nice* one, whereas MacOS had one from the get-go and MS had more-or-
> less gotten the wrinkles ironed out by Win95; unless their employees
> truly needed bleeding-edge performance or one of the increasingly rare
> *nix-only software suites for line-of-business purposes, why on Earth
> would a company drop $$$ for Tru64/AIX/Solaris/HP-UX with CDE on top
> when they could get the job done with a PC or Mac for $$ and get a less
> grody user experience into the bargain?)

   Small/medium "business" usually doesn't NEED expensive
   "cutting edge" boxes. They need usable boxes for all
   the staff, few perks, little flair, just a step above
   a terminal.

   Now with Linux, your 'regular' box can PERFORM like
   an expensive server .....

   Liked ASUS boards with decent i5's ... made great
   and reliable servers. I/O, well, didn't matter HOW
   fast the box was, it was only gonna push just SO
   much over the wires. That, not CPU, was the main
   limiting issue. An i9 wasn't gonna deliver files
   ANY faster.

   Only ONE guy had a box with an extra good video
   card - mostly because he did our GIS stuff.

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#236346

FromCharlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Date2026-11-03 02:42 +0000
Message-ID<FSbGS.128745$Gau3.91431@fx14.iad>
In reply to#236342
On 2026-11-03, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:

>    Small/medium "business" usually doesn't NEED expensive
>    "cutting edge" boxes. They need usable boxes for all
>    the staff, few perks, little flair, just a step above
>    a terminal.

I always loved the way people expressed this as "bleeding edge".

>    Only ONE guy had a box with an extra good video
>    card - mostly because he did our GIS stuff.

When a PPOE got their first personal computers (XT clones
at $5K a pop) they ordered CGA for all of them.  Once they
realized what a dog CGA was performance-wise (a good typist
could keep a word ahead of what a word processor was displaying
on the screen), they reverted to Hercules cards - except for
the one machine in engineering that really needed the graphics
capability.

-- 
/~\  Charlie Gibbs                  |  In this world there are
\ /  <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>      |  two kinds of people:
 X   I'm really at ac.dekanfrus     |  1. Those who can extrapolate
/ \  if you read it the right way.  |  from incomplete data.

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#236358

FromJohann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid>
Date2026-11-03 16:38 +0800
Message-ID<m4hGS.16006$mbb2.2991@fx03.ams4>
In reply to#236331
On 11/3/2026 5:50 AM, John Ames wrote:
> The whole "workstation" class was vulnerable to this; the assumption
> that business customers with a need for personal computers would pay
> kilobucks to get the Best Of The Best got shakier and shakier as the
> vendors' technical/performance lead was eroded by Intel's dogged per-
> sistence and Apple's piggybacking off IBM & Motorola's own R&D efforts
> and the commerical Unix vendors tried with decidedly mixed success to
> follow changing preferences in UI design, 'til it finally completely
> imploded sometime in the mid-'00s.

Nowadays, nobody cares about /usability/ nor /learnability/.  All the
hard work that culminated in the 90s knowledge of how user interfaces
should be designed is now gone.

But it's /new & shiny/ with fancy graphics?  No, not since they started
to make everything /flat/.  Now the competition seems to be who can make
the flatter and boring user interface, with more and more hidden feat-
ures, because who wants to do useful things in a computer, or a website,
or a phone?


Thank you for coming to my alt.folklore.computers rant!
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#236359

FromThe Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Date2026-11-03 08:40 +0000
Message-ID<11cc6ml$3ino6$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#236358
On 03/11/2026 08:38, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> Now the competition seems to be who can make
> the flatter and boring user interface, with more and more hidden feat-
> ures, because who wants to do useful things in a computer, or a website,
> or a phone?

Certainly not the 'creatives' hired to design the GUI.

But even ArtStudents™ need their cocaine money...

-- 
"If you don’t read the news paper, you are un-informed. If you read the 
news paper, you are mis-informed."

Mark Twain

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#236371

FromPeter Flass <Peter@Iron-Spring.com>
Date2026-11-03 07:29 -0700
Message-ID<11ccr3d$3qs09$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#236358
On 11/3/26 01:38, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> On 11/3/2026 5:50 AM, John Ames wrote:
>> The whole "workstation" class was vulnerable to this; the assumption
>> that business customers with a need for personal computers would pay
>> kilobucks to get the Best Of The Best got shakier and shakier as the
>> vendors' technical/performance lead was eroded by Intel's dogged per-
>> sistence and Apple's piggybacking off IBM & Motorola's own R&D efforts
>> and the commerical Unix vendors tried with decidedly mixed success to
>> follow changing preferences in UI design, 'til it finally completely
>> imploded sometime in the mid-'00s.
> 
> Nowadays, nobody cares about /usability/ nor /learnability/.  All the
> hard work that culminated in the 90s knowledge of how user interfaces
> should be designed is now gone.
> 
> But it's /new & shiny/ with fancy graphics?  No, not since they started
> to make everything /flat/.  Now the competition seems to be who can make
> the flatter and boring user interface, with more and more hidden feat-
> ures, because who wants to do useful things in a computer, or a website,
> or a phone?
> 
> 
> Thank you for coming to my alt.folklore.computers rant!

To some extent, "more boring" is a really good thing. That means there 
are no surprises and everyone just takes it for granted. Electric power 
is boring, and you wouldn't want it to be anything else.

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#236381

FromJohann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid>
Date2026-11-04 02:02 +0800
Message-ID<hlpGS.171218$dpW.152280@fx01.ams4>
In reply to#236371
On 11/3/2026 10:29 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
> On 11/3/26 01:38, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>> On 11/3/2026 5:50 AM, John Ames wrote:
>>> The whole "workstation" class was vulnerable to this; the assumption
>>> that business customers with a need for personal computers would pay
>>> kilobucks to get the Best Of The Best got shakier and shakier as the
>>> vendors' technical/performance lead was eroded by Intel's dogged per-
>>> sistence and Apple's piggybacking off IBM & Motorola's own R&D efforts
>>> and the commerical Unix vendors tried with decidedly mixed success to
>>> follow changing preferences in UI design, 'til it finally completely
>>> imploded sometime in the mid-'00s.
>>
>> Nowadays, nobody cares about /usability/ nor /learnability/.  All the
>> hard work that culminated in the 90s knowledge of how user interfaces
>> should be designed is now gone.
>>
>> But it's /new & shiny/ with fancy graphics?  No, not since they started
>> to make everything /flat/.  Now the competition seems to be who can make
>> the flatter and boring user interface, with more and more hidden feat-
>> ures, because who wants to do useful things in a computer, or a website,
>> or a phone?
>>
>>
>> Thank you for coming to my alt.folklore.computers rant!
> 
> To some extent, "more boring" is a really good thing. That means there 
> are no surprises and everyone just takes it for granted. Electric power 
> is boring, and you wouldn't want it to be anything else.

Sure, and by that token, /pull down menus/ are boring, but so many app-
lications don't have them, or hide them.  It is for instance hidden by
default in Thunderbird, is a "hamburger menu" in Edge, and doesn't exist
in Viber [1].

I know Microsoft invented something to combine the menus and the tool-
bars, but I haven't used it enough to say if it's better or worse.  I
know it was invented to minimize support cost; they had people phoning
in [2] asking for features that were already there.  So their motivation
was to force people to find the features before contacting their support
teams.  I'm not sure that's a good motivation.

And here you can see me type in WordPerfect.  It has the traditional
menu and toolbars; I haven't customized the look of it yet.

   https://bsky.app/profile/myrkraverk.bsky.social/post/3mz6fwrupz22e

Sadly, the toolbars aren't all that exciting.  As I look at them today,
I think their primary purpose -- and the reason they are two by default
-- is for 90s marketing propaganda.  Looking at the back of the boxes of
typical late 90s software offering, people could marvel at the amount of
toolbars in the screenshot and think "wow, this software is powerful."

And now we are stuck with that tradition, at least when we stick to
/traditional/ software packages like WordPerfect, CorelDRAW! and the
like.

There are a lot of things we can do with menus, and in this instance I'm
not against gimmicks like Darklands and Amiga where the menu appears on
a right click.  Nor toolbars, but they shouldn't be duplicating features
that can be found in the status bar -- which was the default in IBM's
Lotus Ami Pro if I remember correctly.

And since this is cross posted to comp.os.linux.misc, I'll add that the
/tradition/ in open source applications was not to have the toolbars
customizable at all.  Which is their primary usability, that you can add
buttons, toolbars, and remove the defaults.

I haven't used a /typical/ Linux desktop application for so long I don't
know if that's still the case.  Maybe GTK and Qt already have toolbar
customization gimmicks?  I don't know.


Thank you for coming to my alt.folklore.computers rant!

[1] It's one of the myriad instant text messaging platforms; I was look-
ing at the Window client.

[2] Or that's the story as I heard it; it could have been emails or Zen-
desk tickets for all I know.
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#236384

From"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Date2026-11-03 19:45 +0100
Message-ID<nkuodeFeeehU2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#236381
On 2026-11-03 19:02, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> On 11/3/2026 10:29 PM, Peter Flass wrote:
>> On 11/3/26 01:38, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
>>> On 11/3/2026 5:50 AM, John Ames wrote:

> And since this is cross posted to comp.os.linux.misc, I'll add that the
> /tradition/ in open source applications was not to have the toolbars
> customizable at all.  Which is their primary usability, that you can add
> buttons, toolbars, and remove the defaults.
> 
> I haven't used a /typical/ Linux desktop application for so long I don't
> know if that's still the case.  Maybe GTK and Qt already have toolbar
> customization gimmicks?  I don't know.

In LibreOffice they can be customized.

-- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
        ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺.

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#236281

Fromc186282 <c186282@nnada.net>
Date2026-11-01 18:17 -0500
Message-ID<ayudnc43iJgfVXr3nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#236274
On 11/1/26 05:16, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> schrieb:
>> On 10/31/26 17:38, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>>> On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:07:47 -0400, jayjwa wrote:
>>>
>>>> The DEC systems are more fun, have better docs, and much more
>>>> software.
>>>
>>> If you look at all the vintage docs collected at Bitsavers, out of
>>> (currently) about 660GB in total, over 40% is from DEC. Number 2 is
>>> IBM, but the DEC collection is bigger by nearly 3:1.
>>>
>>> Number 3 is CDC, at about a quarter of the size of the IBM collection.
>>
>>     The DEC boxes were GREAT !
>>
>>     Not entirely sure why they went out of biz - likely
>>     idiot management. Daddy builds it, Junior TRASHES it.
> 
> Daddy built it, daddy trashed it (Ken Olsen, he was responsible
> for both).

   Developed giant coke habit maybe ?  ;-)

> If you are interested, you could look up "DEC is Dead, Long Live
> DEC", an excellent book.
> 
>>     Still wish someone would modernize VMS - it was a
>>     fantastic/powerful system with a ton of prescient
>>     modern features - could do international internet
>>     before there WAS an internet.
> 
> Somebody is trying to do so (see https://vmssoftware.com/) but
> that particular train has left the station a long time ago.

   Alas, probably so. It'd take too many fix-ups now
   to go 'modern', to be a rival to Linux/UNIX.

   But it was damned good in its day.

   Anyway, as for 'wealth' the complete usual rule
   is : GrandPa makes it, Junior cruises on it and
   the grandkids BLOW it all. No ancient titled
   families in the USA - no barons, ducs and earls -
   money comes, and goes.

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#236283

FromKeith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Date2026-11-01 16:45 -0800
Message-ID<11c8mg3$2e89e$2@kst.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#236281
c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:
> On 11/1/26 05:16, Thomas Koenig wrote:
[...]
>> Daddy built it, daddy trashed it (Ken Olsen, he was responsible
>> for both).
>
> Developed giant coke habit maybe ?  ;-)

Do you have some basis for this?  If it's a joke (yes, I see the
smiley), I fail to see the humor.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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#236285

Fromc186282 <c186282@nnada.net>
Date2026-11-01 21:00 -0500
Message-ID<_ZucnafJTvBFc3r3nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#236283
On 11/1/26 19:45, Keith Thompson wrote:
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:
>> On 11/1/26 05:16, Thomas Koenig wrote:
> [...]
>>> Daddy built it, daddy trashed it (Ken Olsen, he was responsible
>>> for both).
>>
>> Developed giant coke habit maybe ?  ;-)
> 
> Do you have some basis for this?  If it's a joke (yes, I see the
> smiley), I fail to see the humor.
> 
> [...]
> 

   Umm ... NOT so unusual for the times  :-)

   Gotta wonder. Big powerful cutting-edge corp
   with good history suddenly crashes and burns ......

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#236288 — Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)

FromJohn Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
Date2026-11-02 02:16 +0000
SubjectRe: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)
Message-ID<11c8rq9$1e6t$1@gal.iecc.com>
In reply to#236285
According to c186282  <c186282@nnada.net>:
>   Umm ... NOT so unusual for the times  :-)
>
>   Gotta wonder. Big powerful cutting-edge corp
>   with good history suddenly crashes and burns ......

Sheesh, it's not like it's hard to find out what happened.  The world of microprocessors
was different from the world of minicomputers, DEC's management never figured that out,
and its board of directors didn't either.

Gordon Bell wrote this afterword for the "DEC is Dead" book which explains it well.

https://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/CGB%20Files/DEC_Is_Dead_Bell_Appendix_Schein_Book.pdf


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#236289 — Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)

Fromrbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Date2026-11-02 04:48 +0000
SubjectRe: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)
Message-ID<nkqj0vFftq4U8@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#236288
On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:16:41 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:

> According to c186282  <c186282@nnada.net>:
>>   Umm ... NOT so unusual for the times
>>
>>   Gotta wonder. Big powerful cutting-edge corp with good history
>>   suddenly crashes and burns ......
> 
> Sheesh, it's not like it's hard to find out what happened.  The world of
> microprocessors was different from the world of minicomputers, DEC's
> management never figured that out, and its board of directors didn't
> either.

The Rainbow was interesting. Almost, but not quite, compatible with PCs. 
The proprietary diskettes at $5 a pop didn't go over well either. 

Olsen's belief that people didn't need or want a home computer wasn't 
unique in that era. Ward Christensen of xmodem fame worked for IBM. 
Famously he sent a memo up the chain of command saying IBM should look 
into microcomputers. The reply was there was no market for them but if he 
wanted to screw around with them on his own time feel free.

We contracted to supply cable assemblies to DEC in Augusta ME in the '70s. 
Their QA was quite demanding but we could pass inspection. Then they gave 
the contract to the Passamaquoddy tribe. I don't know how that turned 
out. 

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#236290 — Re: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)

FromJohann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid>
Date2026-11-02 14:13 +0800
SubjectRe: [OT] Dead DEC Punch card times (was Re: Taking Speedy too seriously)
Message-ID<URVFS.20180$1WK1.4115@fx14.ams4>
In reply to#236289
On 11/2/2026 12:48 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Nov 2026 02:16:41 -0000 (UTC), John Levine wrote:
> 
>> According to c186282  <c186282@nnada.net>:
>>>    Umm ... NOT so unusual for the times
>>>
>>>    Gotta wonder. Big powerful cutting-edge corp with good history
>>>    suddenly crashes and burns ......
>>
>> Sheesh, it's not like it's hard to find out what happened.  The world of
>> microprocessors was different from the world of minicomputers, DEC's
>> management never figured that out, and its board of directors didn't
>> either.
> 
> The Rainbow was interesting. Almost, but not quite, compatible with PCs.
> The proprietary diskettes at $5 a pop didn't go over well either.
> 
> Olsen's belief that people didn't need or want a home computer wasn't
> unique in that era. Ward Christensen of xmodem fame worked for IBM.
> Famously he sent a memo up the chain of command saying IBM should look
> into microcomputers. The reply was there was no market for them but if he
> wanted to screw around with them on his own time feel free.
> 
> We contracted to supply cable assemblies to DEC in Augusta ME in the '70s.
> Their QA was quite demanding but we could pass inspection. Then they gave
> the contract to the Passamaquoddy tribe. I don't know how that turned
> out.

Nobody can prevent someone else from inventing something that changes
the business rules from under you.  I'm only theorizing here, but I
would not be surprised [1] if DOOM sold a lot of home PCs in the early
90s, then Quake even more.

Windows 95 helped, but as far as I understand it, it really was meant
for corporate environments more than the home on the technical side; the
rest was just marketing.

The social phenomenon of people building their own home computers, then
gathering together to connect them with a LAN, all in order to play DOOM
shouldn't be underestimated.

Side note: there's a marketing book called /Guerilla Marketing/ that
touches upon this subject.


Best wishes, and happy victories in DOOM!

[1] And indeed would be surprised it wasn't a significant factor.
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