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Computing | Eighty-column mind n. [IBM] The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from punched card to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet). It is said that these people, including (according to an old joke) the founder of IBM, will be buried `face down, 9-edge first' (the 9-edge being the bottom of the card). This directive is inscribed on IBM's 1402 and 1622 card readers and is referenced in a famous bit of doggerel called "The Last Bug", the climactic lines of which are as follows: He died at the console Of hunger and thirst. Next day he was buried, Face down, 9-edge first. The eighty-column mind was thought by most hackers to dominate IBM's customer base and its thinking. This only began to change in the mid-1990s when IBM began to reinvent itself after the triumph of the killer micro. See IBM, fear and loathing, card walloper. A copy of "The Last Bug" lives on the the GNU site at `http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/last.bug.html'. Source: Jargon File. |
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Crosswords: EIGHTY-COLUMN MIND |
| Specialty definitions using "EIGHTY-COLUMN MIND": card walloper. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-g-h-i-i-l-m-m-n-n-o-t-u-y" | |
-5 letters: comminuting, documenting, immunogenic, outyielding. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 49 47 48 54 59 2D 43 4F 4C 55 4D 4E 4D 49 4E 44 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 01011001 00101101 01000011 01001111 01001100 01010101 01001101 01001110 00100000 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E I G H T Y - C O L U M N   M I N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0049 0047 0048 0054 0059 002D 0043 004F 004C 0055 004D 004E 004D 0049 004E 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39434142545915374946554748247434838 |
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