Ken Cornetet wrote:
> That's why FORTRAN compilers (real ones, not the newfangled stuff) stop
> reading at column 72 - you sequentially number your cards starting in
> column 73. Drop you deck? No problem, just run them through a sorter!

I have a whole box of unused punch cards in my garage that I use for
making lists to go the the hardware store.  Anyone got an IBM 029 and 1401?


>  
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> *To:* Beau E. Cox
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> 
> worse than that--dropping the card stack you spent all morning punching
> in.....
> 
> 
> 
>       *"Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>*
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> 11/18/2005 20:16
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>              
>         To:        "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[email protected]>
>         cc:        
>         Subject:        Re: Re: Ah, another flame war in the making...
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> 
> Hi $Bill Luebkert -
>  
> At 2005-11-18, 14:58:08 you 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.
>>
> 
> - or entering the IPL code ( 32 instructions ) on the front panel of an
> IBM 3044
> at the MIT lab for Nuclear Sicence data center in 1964...and making a
> boo-boo...
> 
> OLD PROGRAMMERS UNITE!!! WE'RE NOT DONE KICKING BUTT YET!!! :) :)
>                                                  
> Aloha => Beau;
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