Removing special characters,spaces,nulls in multiple columns

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:57 am

DSguru2B wrote:1984 huh. I was still carrying around a sippi cup.

So probably not even on the planet when I started. [sigh]

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:44 am

Probably not, Grandfather

mhester · Post by **mhester** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:50 am

Craig - be careful - you are dating yourself here :D

So Craig, tell me, what was it like back in the day when you had to actually open the cabinet of the hardware to perform a reboot?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:23 am

I know, I know... I try not to think of those days... all them switches and dials, blinking lights and spinning tape reels... [shudder]

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:49 pm

What, no punched cards, paper tape, drum storage... ?

(Been there, done that.)

Five 19 inch platters for 80MB of disk storage?
Been there, done that also.

jwiles · Post by **jwiles** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 5:56 pm

Don't forget the magnetic core memory...

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:21 pm

Who said there was none of that? Well... no drum but I've seen plenty of the others and 8-inch floppies to boot. Heck, the first system I worked on professionally had a CDC (Hawk?) drive with one fixed platter and a removable cartridge... and from what I recall they held 5 MEGABYTES apiece. Big stuff back in the day.

Sorry for the derail.

DSguru2B · Post by **DSguru2B** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:24 am

What language are you guys speaking ???

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:27 am

Old Fartian.