Re: Single User

On Thu, 19 May 2022, Mario Lobo wrote:

> On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 10:51 AM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> 
>
>       On 5/19/22 9:25 AM, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>       > Hi,
>       >
>       > On Mon, 16 May 2022 01:44:57 +1000
>       > Andy Farkas <andyf@andyit.com.au> wrote:
>       >
>       >> "Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:"
>       >>
>       >> I haven't seen a RETURN key on a keyboard for many many decades..
>       >>
>       >> -andyf
>       >>
>       >>
>       >
>       > ENTER and RETURN are two different keys.
>       >
>       > Are no mainframe guys here who still know this?
>       >
>
>       I am old enough to remember this. Do we remember CR/LF as in "carriage
>       return" and "line feed"?
>
>       ;-)
>
>       Valeri
>
>       > Erich
> 
> 
> Man .. I'm old!
> 
> I even know where these terms came from. They're typewriter terms .
> 
> When you reached the end of the line on the paper being typed, you had to crank a lever to roll the
> paper one line up (LINE FEED)
> and use the lever to return (push) the carriage to the first position of the new line (CARRIAGE
> RETURN).
>

Pretty sure I am the only one on this list who used compressed punched 
cards on IBSYS. That said, two things are obvious here: 13 is in pretty 
good shape; and it is a slow news day.