Re: The Code behind Coding Languages?
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 5:24 pm
magma that is all going over my head 
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Before floppy disks, computer programs were carried around looking like this:hugh wrote:magma that is all going over my head

JBoy wrote:Cue a wikipedia article from parson.
What a wonderful story.magma wrote:His best story was taking some programs to Germany to be run in a factory... stopped at the border by German immigration asking what all the holey paper is for and how much it was worth.
"Well, the card is worth about a penny, but the holes are worth millions"
He was there a while.
magma wrote:Before floppy disks, computer programs were carried around looking like this:hugh wrote:magma that is all going over my head
Great way to look like a spy, carrying shit like that through customs!
i love that! one day we might use dna in this manner, as a storage medium. it would be perfect- four bit code, ten atoms wide, millions of miles long...magma wrote:
"Well, the card is worth about a penny, but the holes are worth millions"