I do as well. I took FORTRAN and ASM on punch cards. FORTRAN and ASM were “weed out” courses. After that, we used terminals connected to a mainframe for everything.
And when in grad school, I helped refurb a System/3. That was fun. Act one time I could do octal and hex math in my head. These days, I can probably only do byte hex, without writing it down… From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Webster Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 10:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... I do. When I started in IT, the bank was using an IBM 360 Model 25. The first thing I had to learn was using the punch card machine to automate creating card decks. I also learned COBOL and Assembler, check sorting on a 1419 sorter (learned a lot about the banking system by learning the makeup of routing and account numbers). I dabbled in CICS development but that was a very expensive system and terminals. At one point I could do word and double-word hex math in my head. Great for debugging core dumps. Thanks Webster From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent, Mark Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 8:46 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... Do you guys have punch card experience? Mark Kent (MCP) Sr. Desktop Systems Engineer Computing & Technology Services - SUNY Buffalo State From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 9:43 AM To: ntsysadm <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... You and I *are* the same age... Kurt On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 4:23 AM, Webster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: exactly 40 years ago when i started college for music performance major on tuba, my profs were trying to tell us about the fallacy of "doing too many things at once". no one had a computer yet. webster Sent using OWA for iPad ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 8:40:23 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... It’s been a LOT more than 5 years ago. I remember hearing about it in college, 30+ years ago… From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2015 9:28 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Not to stir the pot, or anything... Great quote about users: "They're suckers for irrelevancy," Wasn't multitasking identified as an issue 5+ years ago? Or are we now just getting around to scientific confirmation of previous observations? -- Espi On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2989987/it-management/out-of-focus-the-multitasking-dilemma.html Kurt
