On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:24:50PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Paul Rogers wrote: > >> IBM 7090/7094. Fall 1965. Punched cards. Fortran II. Been there, > >> done that. > > > > ;-) > > > > IBM 1620 for me. > > I did use that in 1966. Mass storage was punched cards. Did you ever > manually punch a binary program on cards? We did as an exercise. >
Way OT, but when I went to college in 1972 I knew nothing about computers. A kid in our dorm was a real nerd and not well-liked. One day, we got hold of one of his programs on punched cards and shuffled them thoroughly. We really thought we had done him in! Next semester I took a programming class (Algol) and was shocked to find a little machine in the key-punching room which would sort your cards back into order effortlessly. Guess the joke was on us! Scott Swanson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
