>Luxury. �When we were using BASIC, we used mark-sense cards which
>were taken to CCAE each afternoon by our teacher, where they were
>run on a Burroughs 6800 (anyone remember Burroughs?). �It used to
>take three days to get our output back. �And of course, no-one ever
>writes a program that runs first time, do they?
HA ! Three days ?? What luxury... And I bet you used those old IBM
punch card machines that had the tape in them that printed the code
on the top edge of the card, didn't you ???
When I worked for Mayne-Nickless in '75, we used to turn the tape off
when the girls punched a large deck, then when the new junior
operator stagered into the computer room with a heap of cards,
we'd trip him - cards everywhere !! Of course, we told him that he
had to read the sequence number (8 characters, from memory, and out
the cards back in order before reading - seems we neglected to
mention the auto-sorter on the card reader !!
Ah, the good old days of punching Cobol code onto cards, and getting
the results from the Control Data system at least a week later from
UNSW !! Until I had access to MN's Honeywell, of course !!
Nostalgicly,
Jon
P.s. Any of you old guys remember a thing called the EDUC-8 ? The
kit computer that DSE used to sell, designed by Electronics
Australia - came out at the same time as the Altair 8080 - I had to
build the prototype for them, and I'm kicking myself for not keeping
it - it'd be worth a small fortune now.
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