Front panel switches on a PDP-11, the memories.... Once I wrote a program (on paper tape) that picked random cuss-words in FORTRAN.
| "Anthony R. Nemmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "Combs, Stephen F (GE Consumer & Industrial)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making... |
Ah yes, I miss the days of front panel lights and gleaming rows of
toggle switches! One contract I worked on dealed with a rack mount
Sperry computer that did in fact have switches on it so it could be
booted in an emergency by hand. I did assembly language programming on
it. As I remember, it had some great indexing modes.
Tony
Combs, Stephen F (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote:
>Can you say "Drum Memory"! ;-> Unfortunately my first experience with
>computers used Hollerith cards, paper tape and real, live front panels
>(pretty lights and switches.... Ooooohhhhhh...) ;->
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>Stephen F. Combs CISSP
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Beau
>E. Cox
>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:43 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Gomez, Juan
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...
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>Hi Anthony R. Nemmer -
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>At 2005-11-18, 08:22:34 you wrote:
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>>Yes, and before that I used Emacs on a MULTICS system. I even tried my
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>>hand at TECO, which was an excrutiatingly painful line editor with a
>>command syntax that looked like line noise. I also used a couple of
>>funky full screen editors that ran on IBM and Univac mainframes back in
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>>the day.
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>>Tony
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>>Gomez, Juan wrote:
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>>>I remember to use an DOS command call edlin, have you ever use it?
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>>>Then I remember using PW that one fit in a floppy =]
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>>>Armando Gomez Guajardo
>>>Process Engineer
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>>>Anthony R. Nemmer
>>>Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:20 AM
>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Cc: [email protected]
>>>Subject: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...
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>>>I remember using Wordstar to do Pascal programming. =) This would be
>>>in the very early 1980's
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>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>>>>the dreaded editor/IDE controversy! This one's been dormant ever
>>>>since
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>>>>I've been a subscriber; good to see it coming back to life.
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>>>>Buwah-ha-ha-haaaa! Let the flayings begin!
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>>>>P.S. I use a combination of antiques: edit (the old DOS editor) and
>>>>Kedit, with an occasional resorting to Vim.
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>>>>Strong the call of the Dark Side is.
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>Got you all beat -- I used a 026 IBM card punch to write COBOL and
>Assembler programs circa. 1966 :)
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>Aloha => Beau;
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