My favorite was the advent of new technology, PDP 8, where I could flip switches in the front of the computer to represent octal bytes and program the computer that way. Punched cards begone ! :-)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Esterle" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] Punch tapes Mere youngsters! I can actually remember wiring IBM 407 accounting machines. Also used a reproducing punch machine that converted inventory Kimball tags into punched cards. Graduated to an IBM 1407 and thought I was in heaven. Except that I still had to sort the entire AOA mailing list, manually, on punched cards. Remember the slanted card racks? I could pull out a pocket and invert the cards without dropping the stack. Still have a card hook around here somewhere. Then printed them using the 1407. labeled the brochures and hand sorted them for bulk mailing. Ah the joys of a night newbie operator! Paul Esterle Freelance Boating Writer "Capt'n Pauley's Place" The Virtual Boatyard www.thevirtualboatyard.com ) The microcomputer > world was (almost) up and running by that point; IBM sold their first PC > a year or two later. > > My God. I just realized that I'm getting old. :))) > > > Ben _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
