> Been there, done that. Fortran IV was where it was at! At > the time I > took my programming languages course, we took APL, Algol and PL/1. C > wasn't invented yet. We also studied Fortran, Cobol, and Assembler > (good old IBM 360 at that).
I have(had) a friend in college who was an APL freak. Used to tell us Fortran/Cobol jocks that he could write any program in One line of code. did some Snobol once, How about that old standard for report writers before CrystaL Reports - RPG and RPG-2 > Don't forget about the original ASCII art though - a box of > punch cards > to produce two pages out output, with many of the lines > overstruck 3-5 > times. I had some beauties. You'd call the computer room > and ask them > to change the ribbon in the printer, and then run your deck through. > The operators sure knew what was happening by the sound the printers > made, and would cuss your name... I kept a few boxes of > these until it > I moved in 1990 and just couldn't justify hanging on to them > any more. > I had them for over 10 years though. I think I still may have a reel of tape with those images on them somewhere. The "Enterprise" and Spock images were my personal favorites. > I've booted 11/70s so many times I'm sure I could walk up to > one today > and toggle the switches for the boot loader just by instinct. heck, I used to debug OS code problems by single stepping those pretty little LEDS through the Binary instruction set. try and do that on a PC....... source level debuggers, phewey! real compsci-er's debug in bit fields in RAM in real time. (all right, i confess, that is stretching things a wee bit) > You ain't lived until you've written the overlay code for > RSX-11M. Pick > which libraries are in memory at any one time - you've only > got 64K to > work with. > > I've worked with 800bpi tapes, spent 250K for a pair of tri-density > (800/1600/6250) tape drives, etc. I remember RSX11-M , never did anything in it, it sat on the shelf as endless boxes of paper tapes. We were running that new fangled UNIX operating system. > > Them were the good old days, when you dealt with techs that > had to know > more than just which board to swap. I still judge a tech's > competence > these days by how old he (and very rarely she) is. Remember when they actually carried in and used an Oscilloscope? > > Those of you complaing about bandwidth should remember the > early days. > 300baud acoustic modems on a Silent 700 terminal with > thermal paper. At > my first job, we paid 60 cents per 1000 characters transmitted or > received. Those charges could really add up! > Remember how excited you were when 1200 Baud modems were announced? what DID THEY COST BACK THEN, like $2-3 GRAND each? I remember setting up inter-office communications using 2400 baud analog modems that were as big as todays PC's over dedicated voice circuits tied to Timeplex Asynch Mux banks to run DEC VT100 terminal connections between our remote offices and the main office. 12 terminals running at 120 characters per second if they each took turns and overlapped right. The users were all excited when we upgraded the link to 9600 baud modems a few years later. Hayes started to take off as a company back then and became KING of MODEMS for quite a while. I remember running UUCP over Telebit Trailblazer modems for NETNEWS in a point to Point UUCP "HoneyDanBer" dialup network. from Darpa to Arpa to Internet in what about 30 years? -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
