WOW! that is just SO awesome! You guys REALLY blazed the trail for the
rest of us. Wow!
vern wrote:
>
> I learned COBOL in college back in 1968 by using punch
> cards. You wrote out your lines of code on coding
> sheets then stood in line to get a turn on the keypunch
> machine. Then take your bundle of cards to the admin.
> building basement and submitted your cards to the "computer
> technician", who ran your program while the machine was idle
> from doing "real" stuff. Then you went back the next morning
> an got your printout and found your errors and you tagged your
> bad lines of code, and then back to the keypunch machine, and
> on and on. We had an IBM 360 then, it was soon replaced with
> some Honeywell beast.
> Ten years later I got my first "personal computer" an Apple ][
> with 4K of RAM and an audio cassette recorder to record the programs.
> My "library of files" consisted of a shoe box of audio cassettes. I
> worked for Uncle Sam then and had my very own Internet account too,
> even used it from home a few times with my 300 baud modem with the
> acoustical coupler (a rubber thingy to stick you phone handset into).
> I still live in the sticks with a 24K phone line, and waiting for the
> satellites to get here! :-)
> vern
>
> Mark Weaver wrote:
> >
> > honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
> > cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever!
> >
> > --
> > Mark
> >
> > ** Registered Linux user # 182496 **
> >
> >
> >
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Mark
I love my Linux box...
REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
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