On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:52 PM, b_s-wilk <b1sun...@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > Hey young fella! >>> > >>> > Old people invented "the cloud" many years ago. Do you remember >>> ARPANET? I >>> > do. I used it. I used punch cards for Fortran programs that I fed into >>> a >>> > Burroughs mainframe that was the 3400 block of Market Street in Philly. >>> > >>> >> >> You mean good old Unicol. I spent quite a few nights fretting over a pile >> of punch cards that were my FORTRAN program to generate the first 6 prime >> fibbonacci numbers. It was cheaper to use Drexel's computer lab but I >> ran >> a few things at the mother ship >> > > OMG, were you a classmate??? Decima Anderson? > Nope, I graduated class of '86 should have been '84 but I took the long way around. Fortran was fall of '79 in the first bunch of freshmen classes. > > It was scary carrying a week's worth of punch cards four blocks [it was > 3600 block, not 3400] without dropping them and spending hours to put them > back in order. I remember Burroughs, what it looked like, but not the model. > One of the other computers had all those blinking lights that were fun to > watch, like in the old sci fi movies. BTW, I was an art major, taking > Fortran programming for "fun". > We had art majors? I liked some of the fashion design majors. I think it may have moved. I remember it being on the corner behind the Gym at 34th and Market. I think Ivy research was upstairs where some folks rented their bodies to science. > > I like my iMac better. > > I still have a 128K upgraded to a plus Mac in the basement with the blue Drexel D Tattoo on the front from the batch the class of '88/'89 got as freshmen. I think my wife's has the Drexel D Brand burned into the case. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
