Nope, hadn't that particular thrill...but I do remeber the card readers and tape..
And, only heard about the plug boards when I was first learning programming.
I remember my first internet experience was playing Star Trek on a DEC terminal
through a telephone coupler as a modem link. I *did* like the hundreds of lights on
those modems, though... looked real cool when I was 12 years old!
> No one remembers the Diablo drives, 5M fixed & 5M removable (soft sectored
> cartridges made for some fun when mounted on a hard sector drive :)
>
> But that was "high tech" compared to storage which consisted of paper tape,
> punch cards, mag tape... Of course, even these were great when compared to
> programs "written" on 30"x30" (if I remember the size correctly) plug boards
> with loads of wires and the odd diode to prevent backflow. That was about the
> time it took an entire weekend to sort a few thousand "records" (cards, one
> column at a time) if not too many cards were "eaten" by the sorter which
> required a trip to the 026/029 machines... Then VM appeared on the
> IBM360/67... Ahhhhhh!!! :^)
>
> Retired (not yet 55),
> Pierre
>
> PS: The best "flashback" was watching a co-worker go airborne... he was
> sitting on a chair which he rolled over bubble wrap while pulling out a DEC
> power supply drawer... :^) :^)
>
> Greg Stewart wrote:
> >
> > I remember when a 10MB hard drive was the size of pizza, fit into a
>refridgerator-sized beast ofa cabinet, and PCs had 8 & 1/2 inch floppy diskettes!
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