[Spridgets] Bloody computers

Larry Macy lmacy at phillymgclub.com
Tue Jun 3 19:54:15 MDT 2008


Gotta love a power failure in the middle of a tornado with 1/2 the  
stack in the reader. Shreds about 25% of the cards. Was a SAS run for  
my dissertation. Had to re-key the whole set.

Larry

On Jun 3, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Jim Hammack wrote:

>   That's  why we numbered ours in the upper right-hand corner.   
> Black if
>   the  card  never  had  to  be  changed,  and  red  if we had to  
> change
>   something - like a 7-track tape number.
>   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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