Where I went to school the "operator" window was open 24x7. It wasn't
the operator either, just work-study minions whose job was to accept
card decks and hand back decks w/ printouts.
Didn't matter what time you turned your cards in as long as you had time
to get your printout back before the deadline to turn it in to the
instructor ... although it seemed like the card punch machines were less
busy during the day time.
I dropped that class early in the semester & didn't have anything to do
with computers again until the early 80s when I was working on security
systems and many of them began to be run on micro & mini computers.
On 2/24/2014 10:49 AM, John wrote:
Ah yes, the "good old days." How many times did you drop your cards,
just as you were handing them to the operator? Did you number them so
they could be resorted? Hmmm, I didn't either. How far down the line
were you when you handed the stack over to the operator? Is it better
to submit them at 3:30 PM or 3:30 AM Curious people want to know?
John
On 2/24/2014 4:35 AM, Peter McIntosh wrote:
On 24 February 2014 07:37, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
i found it by way of this amusing tool which executes google searches
by teletype:
<http://www.masswerk.at/google60/>
i didn't use punch cards much - at university i was lucky to plunge
directly into interactive CRT terminal use in 1978; on the side i had
a research assistantship with Arthur Swersey, a disarmingly
non-conformant biz school professor who wouldn't blink when i showed
up at his office in bare feet and cutoffs; one of my many tasks with
Prof. Swersey was to set up some SIMULA jobs to run on an IBM 360; i
think that, about 1981, was my only contact with punch cards, and it
felt pretty old-fashioned
This is great! I'm taking that link to work tomorrow to show the
"gun" web-devs what they missed. Along with my 96-column IBM punchcard
template, if I can find it. Makes a great coffee coaster...
I used 80-column punch cards on Burroughs machines from the late 70's
thru the mid-80's. The whole cold-start deck for b4xxx mainframes was
on cards. You dropped the (very large) deck on pain of death...
manual resorting was punishment.
Also used to boot a couple of their "mini" mainframes from cassette.
Ciao,
Pete Mac in Melbourne
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