But when you dropped that deck on the floor and became a true beliver in sequence numbers!
One who cut his teeth on IBM-650s. Doug, W6JD -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Bill W5WVO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > G4ILO wrote: > > > not quite as bad as when I learned to program, when you had to get > > the code punched up on cards, then take the deck down to the computer > > room and put it in the "in" tray, then wait a couple of hours until > > they had time to run it. > > And then when you went back down to the computer to pick up your job, you > find > out that some trifling typo in your input deck had caused the whole mainframe > to abort and do a core dump, and not only is your job not done, everybody > down > there is livid at you. :-) Good luck getting them to run your next job at > all! Ah, the not-so-good old days... > > Bill W5WVO > > > > > ----- > > Julian, G4ILO K3 s/n: 222 K2 s/n: 392 > > G4ILO's Shack: www.g4ilo.com > > Zerobeat Ham Forums: www.zerobeat.net/smf > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
