2011/9/12 Barry MacKichan <barry.mackic...@mackichan.com>: > Ok, I'll contribute to this one. I learned programming on a IBM clone --a > clone of an IBM 1620 at Oregon State University in 1960. > We wrote a few programs and then were told about a fabulous new tool called > SOAP, the symbolic optimum assembly program. No more memorizing the numbers > of machine instructions! The optimization part was that not only would it > assemble your program but it would put each instruction on the right part of > the drum so that it would be under the read head when the previous > instruction had executed. Slick! > > All input was on paper tape. The equivalent of the delete key, as I recall, > was opaque tape that you could stick on the paper tape.
Miranda beat you all: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20091201 :-) I'm fascinated by this discussion on _this_ list ("Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" :) Best Martin -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
