$Bill wrote: > Roger A. Shepherd wrote: > > > > > Try this -- Litton L-3050 with a 16 bit boot register that you set manually > > with 16 buttons each the size of your thumbprint. The Army bought the > > hardware 15 years before the development effort got units into the field in > > 1982. > > > > The good old days? > > Hardly - clearing core by toggling in the instructions on the front > panel of an IBM/360 in 1968.
Wow -- that is Old School; the 360 (level 30, OS, TOS DOS) I used in 71-72 actually had punch cards -- and was soon replaced by a PDP-10. I didn't work on it, being about 4 at the time, but the late 1950s my mother took into a tech area in Los Alamos and showed me MANIAC (I think, 2nd generation MADCAP) -- had to have the wiring changed to do a different program, and you could hear the mechanical relays clicking away ... Wouldn't want to trade my desktop for all the computing power in the world in 1958, though. :-) Greg W. DBA GlobeXplorer LLC ps vi (preferred) and SciTe for a tool with some compile/run options. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs !DSPAM:437e826b247992024175031! _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
