On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 16:17:45 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
>https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2023/11/in-bad-old-days-we-had-punchcards-how.html
>
More generally, What did people in that era think? I asked several
people who dealt with punch cards and there are some of their responses:
1) Paper Tape was Worse:
However, punch cards imposed the FB80 bondage which still enslaves
z/OS facilities.
On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 21:57:08 +0000, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
>
>I like to ask the new people I work with "Why does ISPF maintain sequence
>numbers in source?" (or JCL, sysin members, etc.). Not one answers "so you can
>put your punched card deck back in order when you drop it".
>
A major contributing cause was row binary readers on 36-bit machines. I recall
seeing job decks with notes, "Data use 80 columns. DO NOT read with online
reader!"
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gil
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