To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Memories !!
How true. In another life, back in the late 60s, I taught math. There was a local GE plant that let us hook into the GE/Dartmouth time-sharing network with ASR 35s, shown below, where my students did a lot of BASIC programming.
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05/01/2004 10:33:57 AM PDT by
pt17
To: pt17
Those Teletype machines were tough to use, I much preferred the 026 card punch.
Of course , the computer was close by!
7 posted on
05/01/2004 10:38:08 AM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
To: pt17
12 posted on
05/01/2004 10:45:42 AM PDT by
South40
(Amnesty for ILLEGALS is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
To: pt17
Memories !!
Memories indeed. My first BASIC program was written in 1970, time-sharing on a GE635 at one of the Hanford (WA) nuclear facilities. Basic procedure was to first write your code on paper, and then punch it onto paper tape. Only then did you go online and connect to the system, and load the program. This saved connect time on initial entry. Once online you could debug and alter. The final step was to create another paper tape with the final version of the program.
I've still got the old listings and tapes buried somewhere in the storage boxes. May need to pull them out for the anniversary party.
113 posted on
05/03/2004 10:44:04 AM PDT by
StevieB
To: pt17; Ernest_at_the_Beach; jennyp
Nice pic. The very first command I ever sent to a satellite in orbit was on one of those. :-)
An ASR-35 Teletype connected to an Hp-2114 minicomputer.
To: pt17
Wrote my first BASIC programs on one of those in high school. Paper tape storage and an acoustic coupler 300 baud modem.
129 posted on
05/05/2004 1:39:04 PM PDT by
eggman
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