[Tutor] pass tuples to user defined function(beginner)

[Dave Angel]

On 11/29/2011 06:40 PM, emile wrote:
> Dave Angel wrote:
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>  > The whole Y2K problem was caused because
>> too many programmers made unwarranted assumptions about their data (in
>> that case about the range of valid dates).
>
> Well, yes. But we knew then that the stuff we were writing wouldn't
> still be in play 25 years out. :)
>
>> And they were also saving space, in an era where hard disks were
>> available for maybe three thousand dollars for 10 megabytes.
>
> I remember it well... if not fondly. 5Mb internal and 5Mb removable.
> Eventually (by 1980) we could buy 80Mb drives dumbed down to 35Mb for
> $20k. Quite a bit better than the IBM mag-card system I started with,
> itself a step up from single use punch cards...
>
> Emile
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I also started on punched cards, for maybe the first 30,000 "lines" of 
code.  I also had to deal with paper tape for object file transport. 
Talk about unreliable.

Any chance you were a customer or vendor of Wang?  That 80mb drive, 
dumbed down, for prices around $20k, rings a bell.

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DaveA