Punch tape and ALGOL 60, any takers? We used a little hammer and a chisel of sorts plus generous amount of masking tape to fix the coding errors. There was no keyboard per se. We used rows and rows of flip switches to punch in the command. You flip a row of up to 48 toggle switches, then push a "go" button, that is how a command was entered. Debugging was done by "step" through the program, one line at a line. Output was either line printer, or rows and rows of blinker lights. Pretty cool.
Thanks, Francis -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jane Waters Sent: September 12, 2007 9:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EOS CF Cards and deletion Oh my, yes.... sitting at the machine, punching cards, feeding them into the "tiny" IBM machine in the carefully air-conditioned room next door, coming back in the morning to see if your program had run; debugging the code, starting over..... again, and again, and...... PL/1, Fortran, Cobol. Gee, life was good :-) 1965, in case anybody wants to know when MY moments of magic happened. Jane * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
