> > Of course I laughed when I saw the IBM card keypunch machine. I am > certainly not the only person on this list who used one of those > things in the distant past. > > I now await the long thread of people reminiscing about the time they > dropped their deck of cards, scattering them all over the place, and > totally messing up the Fortran program they needed to graduate. >
I got the pleasure of doing some fortran in my freshman year, using punch cards. Although I don't remember dropping them (but I probably did) I do remember pounding away on those machines, then submitting the job for a batch run - only to come back later and find it didn't run because a card was out of sequence. Ugh. It usually happened when I procrastinated until the last minute, then hoped it would run in time for class - which it never did :) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
