Re: [expert] OT: harddrive flashback

[Mark Weaver]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:59:02AM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > honestly I can't begin to imagine writting a program on punch
> > > cards. seems to me that something like that would take literally forever!
> > > 
> > I took a class back in the early 80's on how to program in RPG. The
> > funny thing was, that even though we were using terminals, we still
> > had punch-card emulators and had to have everything in EXACTLY the
> > right column and the right "card." Talk about annoying! :-)
> >     John
> 
> 
> That's because RPG is (was, one hopes) a programming language designed to
> emulate punched cards.
> 
> Now, can we kill the nostagia thread and return to the present?

        Why?

I've really been enjoying it. I think it's really cool to hear about the
early days of computers and programming. These people that were in the
industry in those days really broke the ground and set the standards that
the rest of us take for granted!

Mark

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