Jay Leafey wrote:
I remember numbering on the back of cards with a pencil as a backup
when you
dropped the deck. And of course you numbered by tens just in case
you had to
insert something.
I always took a magic-marker and made a diagonal line across the top
of the deck. Made the initial
I remember numbering on the back of cards with a pencil as a backup when you
dropped the deck. And of course you numbered by tens just in case you had to
insert something.
I always took a magic-marker and made a diagonal line across the top of
the deck. Made the initial rough sort after a "dec
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 15:03 -0700, Steven Vishoot wrote:
> Gees i feel like i am at an ole farts convention, with this thread. :-D
Run along home, sonny. :)
Dave
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On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 15:02 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The COMNET time sharing service in D.C. used the B-5500. It was formed by
> several ex G.E. time sharing people, and we were one of their first beta
> (and largest) customers, so I tended to get what I asked for. On the other
> hand if s
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:16:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
>
> > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M")
> s/"M"/not "M"/
I wish I still had some of my 789 and 6789 cards. If only to use
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> From: David G. Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too
> long"]
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>
> On Sat,
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some
>> ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what
>> they called array row writes to very efficie
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some
> ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what
> they called array row writes to very efficiently write large chunks of
> memory with a single h
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote:
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
>> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
>> 20 jobs in the mix, and didn't require 40 JCL cards to compi
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> >
> >It did the job too. It was several years before we upgraded to a S360/50
> >with 512K (IIRC).
>
> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
> 20
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50.
> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of
> 20 jobs in the mix, and didn't require 40 JCL cards to compile
> and run a one line Hello World FORTRAN progra
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:16 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
> >
>
> > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M")
> s/"M"/not "M"/
Yep. The first computer I programmed on was an IBM 1130 with 16K of
core
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
>On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote:
>>
>
>> Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track
>> disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades
>> involved fork lifts.
>I tried to s
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
> Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M")
s/"M"/not "M"/
--
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On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote:
>
> Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track
> disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades
> involved fork lifts.
I tried to stay out of this thread, I really did. But the "forklift
>
> I always laughed at the early quiz shows where they had a ``computer''
> selecting the questions -- where the computer was really a card sorter that
> would select the picked question into a specific bin.
>
> Bill
Knowing Hollywood, it was probably a prop, with a human behind it sorting the
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 18:09 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> The Burroughs Medium Systems mainframes I worked on allowed one to store
> the program on disk, then compile with modifications in a card deck, using
> the sequence numbers to replace or insert lines from the cards. There were
> options t
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote:
>> That's why you punch sequence numbers in the
>> last 8 columns. :-)
>
>... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you,
>but remember to number by some integer >> 1 or yo
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 16:16 -0700, Raymond Lillard wrote:
> That's why you punch sequence numbers in the
> last 8 columns. :-)
... and some of the fancier card readers would even sort them for you,
but remember to number by some integer >> 1 or you had to redo the whole
remainder of the deck to i
Scott Silva wrote:
> on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following:
>> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
>>> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole
>>> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much
>>> bandwidth, but
on 10-24-2008 3:21 PM Phil Schaffner spake the following:
> On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:19 -0400, Ed Westphal wrote:
>> Forgive my senility, but I'm continually amazed how many of us ole
>> fossils are still around, and running Linux! Not to use up too much
>> bandwidth, but the switch from Fortran
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