On Tue, 4 Apr 2017, Chuck Hast wrote: > The other one I worked on was the PDP-11, those were interesting times.
I did not program or administer a PDP-11, but it ran the remote access terminals (Hollerith card reader and wide line printer) in the Chemistry building that connected to the IBM S/360s on both U. of Illinois campuses: Urbana/Champaign and Chicago. As part of my graduate program was a course in systems ecology for which I wrote a FORTRAN IV program modeling lake energetics. The input card deck occupied more than one box. At the end of a semester when the CS100/101 students were trying to complete projects by occupying the remote access suite if I was in my lab I'd get a call asking me to read in the cards and start a model run. This took enough main frame resources that it drove away the undergrads. Then I killed the run so us grad students had access to the systems. Fun and games. My son liked to feed the card reader hopper, push the buttons to initiate a job, and watch the line printer spit out page after page of output. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
