On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 19:57 -0400, John Ross wrote: > John Ross wrote: > > Carl Spitzer wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 19:43 +0100, Vince L wrote: > > > > > On Sunday 03 June 2007 18:06, jdd wrote: > > > > > > > too many oldtimer, here :-))) > > > > > > > > > > > Punched cards, anyone? > > > > > > > IBM 360 / 370 Assembler with a green card guide at Cal Poly San Louis > > Obispo. > > > > > > > How about an IBM 407a -- whopping 90 card per minute read rate. The > "program" was a 14" by 24" board made of bakelight > like a car spark plug distributor -- with holes like a peg board -- > which held snap pluged wires that combined 1/2 adders and > controlled multiple accumulator registers........
An old timer told me about those things and the roaches which used to eat the wires causing shorts, hence the term debugging. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
