Arbalister
join:2007-11-24
St Catharines, ON
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Re: Charlie Angus, an Honourable man. VIDEO OF GOVERNMENT DEBATE
said by Pocky  :For those of you who wrote great letters such as the Merge Internet. I think it would better to print it out and mail it to him by snail mail. Snail mail has more of impact. Besides its postage-free to mail to MP's Address it to: Angus, Charlie House of Commons Parliament Buildings Ottawa, Ontario Canada K1A 0A6 I generally do, btw - I email them, and follow it up with a printed version. |
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vintagewino
join:2003-07-22
Grimsby, ON
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"Meanwhile our industry minister will continue to play pong and marvel at the advancement MS-DOS 6.2 brings."
He wants to put us all at MS-DOS 3.2, with a 300 baud modem. 
"Gestetner age" ? Uh-oh, a thousand pardons. I'm WAY in the future. We're talking ASR-33 teletypes at 75 baud. 
Tiny update:
Well, it took 4 days, but I did get an e-mail back from my Conservative MP, Dean Allison, via his assistant, c/w a tardiness apology. I am supposed to get a reply back from Jim Prentice's office, cc my MP. We'll see what that form letter looks like.
Direct quotes from Allison's reply:
" That might take some time, but be assured they are very aware of the situation and are obviously hearing from many disgruntled internet users such as yourself."
"I am hopeful that there will be a favourable ending to this issue." |
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cacruden
join:2008-03-18
Toronto, ON | I had a 300 baud home built acoustic coupler modem....
I ran up a $200 long distance phone bill one month (and that was 20+ years ago) -- my parents were not impressed  |
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vintagewino
join:2003-07-22
Grimsby, ON
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1 edit | reply to cms
For Old Time's Sake
As I finished posting the last post, something came up on the screen that was a real blast from the past. Anyone ever hear of JCL (Job Control Language)?
This is from when we played with rectangular cards.
/*JOBPARM TIM=30,LIN=10
/*ACCOUNT=81503000,CLASS=B
/*SYSIN DD *
/*
//
Just for us older farts from the Gestetner age. |
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cacruden
join:2008-03-18
Toronto, ON
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| Yes, but luckily never really had to use it outside of a job I had when going to school.
Have you ever heard of cards, card punch, etc.
I had a volunteer (i.e. non-paid) job working in a datacentre when I was 14 years old. I dropped a program -- which did not have line numbers on it.... The programmer was not impressed that he had to figure out which lines of code went where (in the deck of cards. They had a card punch machine, a card reader, and a teletype (I think it was teletype) machine to communicate with main operations centre where the computer was actually located (nearby city). |
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mazhurg
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join:2004-05-02
Portage La Prairie, MB | reply to vintagewino
My my.. memories there... and PL1, CLI SAS, RACF, DB1 and others...
Mermories...  |
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drjp81
join:2006-01-09
canada
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Re: Charlie Angus, an Honourable man. VIDEO OF GOVERNMENT DEBATE
said by cacruden :I had a 300 baud home built acoustic coupler modem.... Ah yes. Same here, made a wardialer. Got a few people that had call display give me hell because I rang them up at 4 in the morning.
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