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ElwoodB

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When / how can I add one, there doesn't seem to be an option in the User CP??

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You can add an avatar after you've made 100 posts.

You're halfway there!
 
What he said...
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Queersetti said:
The problem is, that FAQ is not the one you get sent to if you click the FAQ link at the top of the forums page. The one there is a generic vBulletin FAQ that tells you how to upload an av, but not the settings.
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Laurel also has to approve your AV , and she is often busy , so it's best to PM her several high res proposed AVs with brief reasons for selecting them.

The proposed AVs are then cross referenced by Manu against the million or so in the database, which also takes time.

Good luck and welcome!
 
Lancecastor said:
Laurel also has to approve your AV , and she is often busy , so it's best to PM her several high res proposed AVs with brief reasons for selecting them.

The proposed AVs are then cross referenced by Manu against the million or so in the database, which also takes time.

Good luck and welcome!
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The guy's join date is listed as 1970 and you're welcoming him?
 
It was all 1's and 0's back then. To answer your question:
10001110101110111001110100111001000111001010111

Hope that clears things up...
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subdued_passion said:
What was Lit like before the dawn of the internet? Did Laurel and Manu man the til themselves or did they use volunteers?

I have SOOOO many questions for you.
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subdued_passion said:
The first I've seen in movies and the second, I have no idea what those are.
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You would mark each card with a pencil for each individual line of code in the computer language you were writing in... cobol, for example.

Once you built your "routine" into a stack of cards, you would put a big elastic around them and give them to the computer operator.

The operator would put your cards in a punch machine to punch holes in your shaded binary code boxes.

Then the punched cards would be fed into the mainframe's card hopper.

You would wait by your assigned teletype terminal... A big automatic typewriter with a big roll of beige craft paper... And wait.

Eventually, your routine would print.

If you made a mistake on any card , you got gibberish.

We used to play a Star Trek battle game in which you used 3d trigonometry to plot your manouvers to get into position to launch phasers or photon torpedos against the computer run Klingon ship.

Without graphics you had to be able to "see" using trig equations plotted on punch cards in cobol.

When Pong came along... It was fucking amazing!
 
Lancecastor said:
You would mark each card with a pencil for each individual line of code in the computer language you were writing in... cobol, for example.

Once you built your "routine" into a stack of cards, you would put a big elastic around them and give them to the computer operator.

The operator would put your cards in a punch machine to punch holes in your shaded binary code boxes.

Then the punched cards would be fed into the mainframe's card hopper.

You would wait by your assigned teletype terminal... A big automatic typewriter with a big roll of beige craft paper... And wait.

Eventually, your routine would print.

If you made a mistake on any card , you got gibberish.

We used to play a Star Trek battle game in which you used 3d trigonometry to plot your manouvers to get into position to launch phasers or photon torpedos against the computer run Klingon ship.

Without graphics you had to be able to "see" using trig equations plotted on punch cards in cobol.

When Pong came along... It was fucking amazing!
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Someone must've made a mistake on my card because gibberish is what this whole post reads like to me. I have new found appreciation for the time I live in.

What the hell was Pong?
 
1970??!! :eek:

You joined Lit before you were even born and before (I believe so) the mods were, too??!!!
 
Lancecastor said:
We used punch cards back then and the resulting posts were sent via teletype terminals.
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I was a systems manager in 1964, running an IBM 1401 on punch cards.

The card reader/puncher used to get hot. If left running for more than half an hour the punch card dust would catch fire, destroying the program and/or data.

If we needed to run a large amount of data I used a CO2 extinguisher to cool it down. The company's fire department weren't pleased with me until I explained that the cost of refilling CO2 extinguishers was a fraction of the cost of the lost computer time. Once I had placed an official order for five CO2 extinguishers a month, they were satisfied because it wasn't coming out of their budget.

The fire department had the last laugh. Since I was using more CO2 extinguishers than they were - I had to go on a fire training course. They didn't make it easy. I had to fight fires as if under nuclear or biological attack at sea, wearing the full hazard suiting. I complained to my manager when they asked me to follow that course with fire fighting in a submerged submarine. He wasn't sympathetic. He had been a WW2 Submarine Commander. I had to take the course, but the compensation was duty free liquor from the submarine's wardroom.

Card wrecks were a pain. We had to hand punch replacements copying the screwed up remains, or get the punch card operators to retype the data.
 
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