Great story, Ben!
Patrick
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ben Braver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: March 7, 2003 7:23 PM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: RE: Bad Joke Friday!
>
>
>BenD-
>
>Back in 1966, at the dawn of computing, when yours truly was a
>junior in
>high school,
>I had a teacher order me to write 1,000 times
>"I will not disturb others by talking in class"
>
>I asked "May it be typed?" He said yes.
><grin>
>
>I had recntly stumbled on the "mainframe" at San Francisco State
>University, taking a shortcut through the Admin building to
>the library to
>avoid the rain. Used the college library to do research for my
>high school
>papers.
>
>The computer operator latched onto me like a Sith to an apprentice <g>,
>sent me to the bookstore for a Fortran II book, (note: not
>even Fortran IV,
>only II <g>), began giving me time on the machine - an IBM 1620 with
>first-gen 1311 hard disks. Console typewriter, no directly-attached
>printer. You had to produce punch cards, then take them to an IBM 408
>Accounting Machine to print. There were "spaghetti wires" on a
>plugboard in
>the 408 to map input columns to output columns, do elementary printer
>programming.
>
>I ran a simple loop in FORTRAN to print the required lines
>(numbered, of
>course).
>
>Then, in English class, good ol' Mr. Heinig boomed "Mr.
>Braver, have you
>completed your assignment?"
>I said "yes, sir" and placed the fan-feed printout on his
>desk, walked back
>to my seat.
>
>"Mr. Braver. Did YOU do this?"
>"Yes, sir."
>
>"Can you substantiate this?"
>"Yes, sir." Produced source card deck and note from computer
>operator that
>I had indeed done it.
>
>Class was trying not to laugh out loud that I had put one over on the
>dreaded Mr. H.
>
>After class, he commended me for my ingenuity, and that it had probably
>taken me far longer than simply writing it.
>I ended up getting an A in his class.
>And made a friend.
>Behind the bluster, he was a hell of a good guy.
>
>-Ben
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