Fortunately I came in the very tail end of that. It was considered an antique even then. The department was too cheap to spring for a more recent computer. The amazing thing was that it worked. The patch board actually was diagrammed like a flow chart. At grad school I had to do almost the exact same job with more modern equipment. It was like night and day. I was completely hooked.
larry -- Larry C. Lyons ColdFusion/Web Developer Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer EBStor.com 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 tel: (703) 393-7930 fax: (703) 393-2659 Web: http://www.ebstor.com http://www.pacel.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Braver, Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 5:01 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: CF Timeline > > > Larry- > ever seen the IBM 400-series "accounting machines" > (programmable printer) > where you used patch cords to map columns on punch cards to columns on > report paper? met one of those as a jr in high school, age > 16. then at jr > college a "mark sense" machine that turned magnetic pencil > marks on cards > into punches. > -Ben > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Larry Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:54 PM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: RE: CF Timeline > > > > > > When I was an undergrad, I got a part time job with the university > > programming an antique pdp (16K machine) that controlled 5 skinner > > experiment boxes. You'd program the thing using patch cords. > > > > It gives you an entirely different perspective on programming > > after having > > done that a few times. > > > > larry > > > > -- > > Larry C. Lyons > > ColdFusion/Web Developer > > Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer > > EBStor.com > > 8870 Rixlew Lane, Suite 204 > > Manassas, Virginia 20109-3795 > > tel: (703) 393-7930 > > fax: (703) 393-2659 > > Web: http://www.ebstor.com > > http://www.pacel.com > > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. > > -- > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Braver, Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 4:42 PM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: RE: CF Timeline > > > > > > > > > "Listen, young feller, when I was your age we had to enter > > > programs through > > > front-panel switches, and we had to walk three miles through > > > the snow to do > > > it..." > > > <grin> > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Lon Lentz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:49 PM > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > Subject: RE: CF Timeline > > > > > > > > > > > > In the early 80s, a company put out a word processor > > > > independent program, called DotWriter, > > > > for printing custom fonts and layouts from the TRS-80. They > > > > put out a large number of fonts > > > > that would rival a lot of the .TTFs out today. All of the > > > > layout and font calls were handled > > > > though markup using "Dot" tags. > > > > > > > > > > > > >>| -----Original Message----- > > > > >>| From: Haggerty, Michael A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > >>| > > > > >>| Anyone who ever used Wordstar could TECHNICALLY claim to > > > > >>| have experience with markup languages going back to the > > > > >>| time they originally used the program. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
