On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 21:14 +1300, Bruce Chapman wrote: > You guys had it tough, we were allowed to use partially straightened > paper clips to punch the Fortran programs.
:-) > OTOH You guys had it easy with access to a machine. Once punched, our > cards were put in the post, and send 200km to the nearest university, > where they sat in the absolute lowest priority queue, and eventually > they ran the deck and mailed it back to our school with the lineflow > output - the longest turnaround was over 6 weeks. Unsurprisingly desk > checking and code reviews were the first professional skills we taught > ourselves. Despite these hardships I still fell in love with the > adventure of pitting my mind against the machine and bending it to my will. Locally we were starting a rebuild of a third hand Elliott 503. For real computing were were sending card decks off to Imperial College's IBM 7094. So not 200km, but most of the rest sounds familiar. Except the turnaround was supposed to be 1 week. Methinks we are getting a long way from Java and the Posse... -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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