When I got my first programming job, in 1982, it was at a site which ran an old ICL mainframe. We had a paper-roll teletype, and submitted jobs on paper-tape, including our source code, which was either COBOL or the ICL assembler, called PLAN, which we wrote in pencil on coding sheets.
These were punched to tape by a roomful of data prep clerks, all women, many of whom could read the tape very easily. The other 2 programmers and I had to learn to read it well enough to be able to find the segments we had to cut out where there were compilation errors. We also had to punch the corrections by hand with a spike on a kind of clamp thing, then sellotape that segment back into place on the rest of the tape. You had to be very careful with your coding and your cutting and splicing because we only got one day a week on the computer, Tuesday evenings after 5pm, when we stayed till about midnight. For short tapes used for job control (not JCL, which was an IBM thing) when you'd got the tape right you could copy it to a strip of expensive blue tape, which was reinforced and could stand to be run over and over, whereas the ordinary tape would break after a few runs. It was very impressive to watch a program you'd written processing the tape, and once you'd run it a few times you could tell by the rhythm which part of the program was executing. B > On 22 Feb 2014, at 17:59, "Ann Sanfedele" <[email protected]> wrote: > > and I could. I considered making it without the type (I tried to make it > look as much as what I remember the "font" to be when "punching" the holes in > photoshop). > > ann > >> On 2/22/2014 12:47, Steffen Zahn wrote: >> that is already the luxury version of punch cards, > > with text printed at the top. Cards from basic punch card machines would only > have the holes. > > But people handling that every day could read the holes without the text > after a while. >> >> Steffen Zahn >> >> >>> Am 22.02.2014 um 15:04 schrieb Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]>: >>> >>> Warning,no photography content :-) >>> >>> http://annsan.smugmug.com/Graphic-Design/Anns-design-work/3346046_7HfWvF/1/3087138555_gPWTQ8H/Medium >>> >>> see also >>> >>> http://www.cafepress.com/annsanstuff.1262911217 >>> >>> ann >>> >>> -- >>> 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. -- 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.
