[Spridgets] Bloody computers

[Lester]

AAAAACCCKKKKK!!!!!  Punch cards...  hate 'em.  We had some kind of  
Basic simulator running on a whatfour compiler through some kind of  
business system.. the old one, started with an "a" IIRC..  but those  
things saved my butt a time or two, see every time there was a power  
fluctuation any work went away into the ether.. poof..  10 hours of  
entering lines to determine Nutria allele distribution gone the way  
of the dodo..

Lester


On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Jim Johnson wrote:

> Anybody ever trip over their feet while carrying a program on a 3  
> foot stack
> of punch cards. In 1963 IBM moved me to parts assembly at the  
> Endwell, NY
> lab when I had an unfortunate stumble on the way to the mainframe  
> in the
> Owego Lab's basement....
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Dave G. <dmg at bossig.com> wrote:
>
>> You had SWITCHES ??????
>> I had to use a plug-board   !!    <Grin>
>>
>> On 3 Jun 2008 at 11:48, David Lieb wrote:
>>
>>>> We used to dream about paper tape! I remember using register  
>>>> switches
>>>> to boot up the diagnostics on a DEC PDP8 after setting the power
>>>> supply voltage with the reostat on the back of the unit. Aye, those
>>>> were the days...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave G.   KK7SS
>> '65 MK III Sprite in Richland, WA
>> "Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
>>    Terry Pratchett, 'Hogfather'
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