To: IonImplantGuru
Once out of school, I never had too much to do with cards except for the once-ubiquitous IBM O29 card punch and the batch card reader that was featured on the PDP-11/45 at my first programming job in 1976. That mainframes-timeshare-and-batch-jobs mentality persisted a long time but my career quickly went in other directions.
35 posted on
03/21/2005 2:33:47 PM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
...much to do with cards except for the once-ubiquitous IBM O29 card punch and the batch card reader that was featured on the PDP-11/45 at my first programming job in 1976. That mainframes-timeshare-and-batch-jobs mentality persisted a long time but...Yeppers! Remember that very well; I took a FORTRAN course in the mid-70s (at San Jose State) and that was the standard deal: get a programming assignment, type up your keypunch cards (and pray you made no typos), submit the deck to IT for a batch job sometime during the night, come back the next day and hope everything worked.
36 posted on
03/21/2005 3:35:00 PM PST by
IonImplantGuru
(Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. (May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us)
To: VadeRetro
the once-ubiquitous IBM O29 card punch and the batch card reader..... Brrrrrrrap-braappp-brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrappppp very-long-and-scary-pause brrrrrrrrrrap-brap-brrrrrrrrrrrrrrap!
"Syntax error in line 110"
;-)
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