Well my mom did blow my nose while doing some basic code a long long
long long long time ago ;)
Now my wife takes care of that while I code in C/C++ ;)
Rial Juan wrote:
>
> 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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>
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> The little critters in nature; they don't know they're ugly.
> That's very funny... A fly marying a bumble-bee...
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