[TR] Cheers!

[Michael Marr]

OK.  My very first experience with digital computing (I was very familiar with analog computing, having used a slide rule since I was 11), was in my first year at University, in 1967.  I took a (required) Fortran programming class, got an A, told myself that I could never see me using one of these ridiculous machines in my chosen profession of plant engineering, and promptly forgot everything I learned.  Who’d’ve thunk it…

Mike

From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Scarbrough
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 7:32 AM
To: Triumphs (triumphs at autox.team.net)
Subject: Re: [TR] Cheers!


On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:59 AM, Randall <TR3driver at ca.rr.com<mailto:TR3driver at ca.rr.com>> wrote:
Small wonder that our field service people would usually key in patches by
hand through the front panel, and just dump memory to tape to create a new
load tape.

My first computing experience was in 1973 with an IBM System 370 at college.  I had to keypunch the cards to write a program, then turn in the deck at the window to have it run, and wait for my output at another window (Hey, maybe that's where the other Windows comes from?)

I soon gained a TSO (Time Sharing Option) account, where I quickly learned I could type my program at the console and get immediate results ("immediate" in 1970s terms).  But the best part was that I could, once the program ran properly, get the system to punch a deck of cards automatically, saving me the time and expense of doing it myself.  I did have tuo run the deck through a keypunch machine to get the text printed across the top, though...

Ah, a lovely day to drive down Memory Lane with the top down...

Jeff Scarbrough
Corrosion Acres, Ga.


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