On 24 February 2014 07:37, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote: > > > > i found it by way of this amusing tool which executes google searches by > teletype: > > <http://www.masswerk.at/google60/> > > > i didn't use punch cards much - at university i was lucky to plunge directly > into interactive CRT terminal use in 1978; on the side i had a research > assistantship with Arthur Swersey, a disarmingly non-conformant biz school > professor who wouldn't blink when i showed up at his office in bare feet and > cutoffs; one of my many tasks with Prof. Swersey was to set up some SIMULA > jobs to run on an IBM 360; i think that, about 1981, was my only contact with > punch cards, and it felt pretty old-fashioned >
This is great! I'm taking that link to work tomorrow to show the "gun" web-devs what they missed. Along with my 96-column IBM punchcard template, if I can find it. Makes a great coffee coaster... I used 80-column punch cards on Burroughs machines from the late 70's thru the mid-80's. The whole cold-start deck for b4xxx mainframes was on cards. You dropped the (very large) deck on pain of death... manual resorting was punishment. Also used to boot a couple of their "mini" mainframes from cassette. Ciao, Pete Mac in Melbourne -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
