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SIONAL LOST FIFTY CONSERVATIVE WHO SIGNED THE TREATY
Not that it makes sense to me...
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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SIGNA (signal loses L (50))
TORY conservative
SIGNATORY who signed the treaty.
(thanks for saving me from having to unearth my Baudot chart!)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nice!
(By the way there is an error in the 3rd letter - it is 11000, which is an O and not G, which is 11010)
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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Sorry, I'm a little rusty. I was too lazy to check it for errors. I was using Wordle blocks. 
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Hm. Been googling "SIONA" to try and work out what the heck you were up to! That a wasted couple of weeks while the tapes get sent off and come back with your punching errors.  (From personal experience a looong time ago...)
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Yep, you are up next. 
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Care to explain for us mere mortals 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Nope, never did! Learned something new this morning 
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Something we oldies started with; in my case via paper tape which was used as the main input on our systems. Take a look at the first picture on row 2 (LEO III/6 and LEO III/7 pics), the paper tape reader is in the foreground. That was the first system I worked on.
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My very first programming class (circa 1976) used a paper punch terminal to write programs in BASIC -- apparently I never learned the paper tape encoding. By the next semester I advanced to 80 column punch cards and UNIVAC assembler.
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We moved from the old LEO system to a Univac 1108 in 1968, and I started learning Assembler when I switched from operating to programming shortly thereafter.
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No I haven't Richard, it was punch cards when I first started
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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We had cards and paper tape when I started. Although paper tape was the primary input medium. There was a room full of young girls, just outside the computer room, who spent all day punching billing information onto TTY tape, which we operators then processed.
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The TTY in the title is a hint... The 'wordle-blocks' are fit the 5 bit nature of the Baudot-code used there...
βReal stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.β
β Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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yes, but let's not make a habit of it, eh?
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Sure, part of its being brilliant is of course that it is original AND a one-shot...
Hopefully next CCC is not in Morse 
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The semicolon key[^]
This keyboard isn't too old - a few years - but the A, S, Shift, and CTRL keys are worn smooth, you can no longer see the labels. E is fading fast, and you could brush your hair in the reflection from the space bar ... but the semicolon looks pristine!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I just bought a new keyboard!
So I am back to being a junior developer!  
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Are you implying that ALL the keys should have lettering on them? I vaguely remember that...
My Dell laptop[^] was 3 years old last month...
Stops anybody from borrowing it!
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I got a replacement keyboard for an hp Pavilion DV6 a couple of years ago. It's about halfway there...
The real problem with the DV6 keyboard is that it has an extra column of keys down the left side, which is surprisingly offputting.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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