P.J. - you are are revealed as a deprived youngster! No paper tape?!? After a one-semester exposure to programming an IBM 1486 (IIRC) Accounting Machine with a big honking 15lb board that was pulled out one end so that jumper connections could be made to instruct the machine to tabulate, multiply etc., I mostly used punch cards. But I did have one year with a GE-teletype system that used paper tape. And of course the Commodore C-64 used cassette tape. Then came floppy discs. I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I started using 3 1/4 discs! Thank you Steve Jobs!
At one point, one of the guys in our computer lab (a draftee FWIW, a Radar-type person) had written an OS for our CDC 3300 that allowed fore-ground/back-ground dual processing. He modified our Fortran compiler so that it would properly interact with his OS. I wrote Fortran code to manage the I/O & data capture to/from terminals that were used by subjects in my experiments. To debug my programs, I had to interpret the core dump hex code to find which registers were in what state at the time of the crash. Fun times! stan On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:28 PM, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> ...I don't think I ever used paper tape,... > Actually I used to subscribe to USENET newsgroups at the first company I > worked for that had a direct internet connection, (they also had their own > trunk line from the East Coast to California, you could trace email paths > from my cube in Connecticut to friends at various Universities on the East > Coast, from our office server it would go to our server in California almost > instantaneously, then spent the next couple of hours to a day or so wending > it's way back to the East Coast through various servers. I don't think I > ever used paper tape, and never saw a punch card after graduate school. > Though I did work with 75 baud communications, you could read the octal on a > protocol analyzer in real time. It's a skill I'm glad I've lost. > > On 6/28/2013 3:02 PM, Gerrit Visser wrote: >> Usenet, dial up modems starting at 300 baud, acoustic couplers, paper tape >> punching/reading at 110 baud. Ah, the memories.... >> >> Thank you for providing another sink hole for my time :-) >> >> Gerrit >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry Colen >> Sent: Friday, June 28, 2013 2:43 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: Re: PESO Muruga's lunch / first K-5II pic >> >> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 02:29:42PM -0400, P.J. Alling wrote: >>> Manual? Hell I find it more disturbing that Larry has Cow-orkers. >>> What are orkers? That he talks to! What are orkers anyway? Sounds >>> more like something that a pig would have not a cow... >> I guess you aren't old enough to remember usenet: >> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cow-orker.html >> >> BTW, the Jargon files are a wonderfully fun timesuck. >> >> Pick a word, and start following interesting looking links in the >> definition: >> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/go01.html >> >> You can even learn about such things as scratch-monkeys: >> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scratch-monkey.html >> >>> On 6/28/2013 10:17 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote: >>>> The K-5II has a manual? A MANUAL! >>>> We don't need no stinking manuals! >>>> Regards, Bob S. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> I was going to read the K-5II manual at lunch, and got chatting with >>>>> my cow-orkers. They were curious about the DA35 macro, so I snapped >>>>> this pic of Muruga's lunch. For sucha silly shot, I think it turned >> out pretty nice: >>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9158332052/ >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Larry Colen [email protected] >> http://red4est.com/lrc >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >>> >>> -- >>> There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard >> drive failure, and those that will. >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > -- > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
