LOL...I totally forgot about putting the felt tip marks down the sides. My
experience was all in College classes - not actual real-world (after college, I
went into CPM on Star/Cromemco machines)
Once I figured out how to use the high-res graphics monitors (they looked more
like a meld of oscilloscope with a keyboard - meant for a language called
A.P.L. [1] that was used to teach graphics coding) and write the appropriate
JPL to submit jobs to into the 'batch side' of the system and include the
professor's data...I stopped using cards - which made coding go so much faster!
One time, the professor required us supply punch cards in addition to line
paper output...so I talked the operator {another student} into using the
automated punch device to "print" my cobol code to give the prof the deck of
cards.
[1] I think this is the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)
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I knew someone who bettered that -
Analyst (know it all) arriving at the computer centre with the customer and
their proving data for system acceptance.
He tripped on the door threshold and the two boxes of cards - 4000 of invoicing
and order data bounced on the floor, and cascaded down the steps.
No felt-tip marker stripe diagonally on the cards, and they had no key entries
in the data - so there was no way to tell which detail entry went with which
header, or in which batch.
4 days before he returned with a newly created set of the data!
After that his designs always included key-values on the data, and the data he
handled always had several diagonal stripes on the packs.
At least he learned from the experience!
He even learnt not to use chads to fill in incorrect holes - that was when the
operator fanned the deck before putting the cards into the reader.
And - you probably not good for your health to picture the well suited customer
rep chasing unravelling paper-tape rolls in amongst the traffic on The Strand
(London)
JimB
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Me 3.....AutoCoder & Fortran in the late 60's. Once dropped a full punch card
box.
Todd Lemmiksoo
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LOL
>>> Being old (school), I have a tendency to declare variables, and initialize
>>> them. Holdover from my early 1980s programming courses.
(told you I was old ...)
Me too...However, I was doing that in the 1970's...Cobol & Fortran using punch
cards & card readers (who remembers those these days?). I knew people who
dropped a stack of 500 cards on the floor and spent hours putting them back in
order.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Brown, Ken F. <[email protected]> wrote:
> cmdlets (from Quest) I was using. (BTW: one of the tricks to help
> memory usage in-flight is to set a variable to $null - which isn't the
> same as "" - this apparently helps the garbage collector)
I found that out, yes. About the difference between "" and @null, I mean -
hadn't heard that about the garbage collection.
Being old (school), I have a tendency to declare variables, and initialize
them. Holdover from my early 1980s programming courses.
(told you I was old ...)
I believe the latest Quest versions are 1.6; the file date says 2012 ....
I still like them, and find them easier to use (if perhaps less
efficient) than the MS cmdlets. And (luckily) I haven't had a memory issue
using them, probably because I don't usually write very complicated scripts.
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