> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee
> >
> > On 13 May 2008 08:57:14 -0700, Michael Poil wrote:
> >
> > >Give me Assembler and a hand-held uninterpreted card punch
> > any day. Real
> > >programmers don't use/need HLL's!
> >
> > Assembler? Real programmers don't need assembler!
>
> Right! We type the program in using the Alter/Display memory function!
> On older machine, we toggle in via the front panel switches!
> Hex is for wimps, binary forever!
Type?? With plugboard and a schematic, who needs to type??
-jc-
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