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.

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