Hi Francis, The way that you describe this task of early computer programming, it sounds like a mental and physical challenge.
Did you know if there is some multimedia simulation of card punching programming, made with Flash, Director, Hypercard or Runrev? Alejandro Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > Hi from Paris, > > Stephen Barncard sent : > >> If one has ever had to work with punched cards >> (and I have not) genuinely >> deserves the title "hard core". > > Not only did I work with punched cards (and I think > there are more of you out there), but when the IBM026 > and 029 card punches were not yet available, we used > the Hollerith key punch to punch our cards by hand. > > Thems were the good old days, when (if I remember > correctly, the left bracket was 12-0-1-8-9, that is > 5 holes in the same column. Needless to say, we often > made mistakes, but it took so long to punch a card, that > we used to stick the confetti back in the holes, and then > correct the cards. Obviously, after feeding the cards > through the reader, a few times, the wire brushes often > knocked out the confetti, and we got a "reader check". > Then we had to examine the card and decide what hole the > confetti had fallen out of !! > > And my VERY FIRST program on the IBM 1401 involved punching > up the whole program in machine code, including the bootstrap. > If you have never punched the command "Set character to word mark", > you have never really lived ..... :>) > > Oh my God - Am I that old ? > > -Francis > > "Nothing should ever be done for the first time - but it often was !" > -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Looking-for-a-defined-path-to-learn-Rev-for-new-users-tp624612p628163.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution