On Mar 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "John D. Kim" wrote:
> >
> > Wow, I've only heard about keypunch. My high school cs teacher used to
> > tell us about it. I learned COBOL when I was in high school, but we had a
> > nice VMS machine to code it on. And I thought COBOL just couldn't be any
> > worse, but I guess I was wrong.
> >
> > On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, ibi wrote:
> >
> > > And, here I thought I was the only kid on the block old enough to know
> > > what keypuch is! Shilly me. LOL .. Pj
>
> Well, I coded Fortran II and Cobol on an IBM 1620 and 7040
> back in 1964 using keypunches. It actually worked quite
> well. Fortran II is very close to the first Microsoft
> Basics (as sold by MITS for their Altair).
>
> The 1620 was slow, with rotating memory drum; but the 7040
> had hand wound core memory and it was FAST. I am not sure
> that it would not favorably compete with modern micros in
> term of speed. But you wouldn't want to pay the electric
> and air conditioning bill! That was in the days before
> integrated circuits. Each memory bit took two to four
> transistors and a toroid core with three windings as I
> recall.
>
> Does this make me the old Geezer of the Mandrake List?
>
Ok, the oldest geezer on the list is succesfully identified. Now begins our
quest for the youngest kiddo on the list. Anyone got his diapers replaced while
coding some PERL script lately? Let us know ;-)
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