Naw... Our computer center had a special sorter.
The crying came about when while carrying the 1000-card deck to the building with the card reader, the deck was dropped and sent flying - many cards ending up in mud puddles. Back then, I thought the formatting drum was the height of technology... -- richard "Michael B. Smith" <[email protected]> wrote on 06/10/2011 03:05:22 PM: > Nope? I took Fortran (that was WATFOR, before any of that crazy > Fortran-77 stuff) and BASM (IBM Basic Assembler) on punch cards. > > You want to see a grown man cry? See a punch-card operator drop his > 1000-card deck while loading it into a punch card reader. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 4:00 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Image Editing software > > I've heard people talk about this BT (Before Terminals) but always > just discounted them as crazy people. Like Big Foot. > > :) > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > I was feeling old, a few minutes ago............... > > :p > > Don Guyer > Windows Systems Engineer > RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 > Enterprise Technology Group > Fiserv > [email protected] > Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 > Fax: 610-233-0404 > www.fiserv.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Webster [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2011 7:24 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Image Editing software > > I survived on an IBM 360/25 with no fancy "terminal" thingy to get in my > way! Programming a punch card machine for IBM COBOL and Assembler code > is > da bomb! :) > > > Webster > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rankin, James R [mailto:[email protected]] > > Subject: Re: Image Editing software > > > > I used to live a fulfilled electronic life using a 1K ZX81 > > > > ------Original Message------ > > From: Michael B. Smith > > Subject: RE: Image Editing software > > Sent: 9 Jun 2011 23:45 > > > > Who needs more than 640K? > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] > > Subject: Re: Image Editing software > > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Kennedy, Jim > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But the bottom line is Adobe imaging products just don't play well > in > > > a network environment. They still strongly recommend against editing > a > > > file on a server with Photoshop, they say copy it locally first. > > > > This "network" idea will never take off anyway. > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
