My worse interface was toggle switches on the front of box. A "yuk" of some sort (AN/UYK).
Punch cards were way easier than that. although the stupid semicolon in the 72 column was a beotch. The punch cards were a good incentive to learn some social engineering, breaking and entering and hacking skills, though. I ended up with an instructor account (including access to terminals _and_ the faculty laser printer) by the end of my first semester. On Jan 8, 2008 11:16 AM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually this is no joke. My first job as an undergrad was with the > University of Winnipeg's Psych department working in the behavioral research > lab. They had an ancient PDP-1 that they used for programming Skinner boxes. > My job, aside from taking care of the rats, was to program this thing. To > program this fossil you had to run wires on a patch panel following a diagram > of each reinforcement schedule. Really nuts. It was far worse than coding > punch cards. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:250160 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
