Yep, Univac here and seq numbers in 10s in the 73-80 column - the reason Fortran only used cols 1-72!
On 05/03/2008 21:37, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > 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 -- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ 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

