On Mon, 12 Jul 2021, Mark Phillips wrote:
In HS (several decades ago), I wrote a matchmaking program for our senior prom that crashed the dialup GE computer (ran out of memory) we used to run Basic programs. Shhh.....I resorted to secretly matching everyone with his/her boyfriend by hand....I was considered a computer genius until the teacher in charge of the dialup account got a call from some very irate folks at GE who threatened to remove the dial up terminal and paper tape reader if we ever crashed their computer again.....he had my back and no one found out. lol
Mark, When I did my MS at the Univ. of Illinois decades ago, I wrote a FORTRAN V ecosystem energy model of a lake for an ecosystem modeling course I took. The code filled two boxes of 80-column Hollerith cards. Toward the end of each semester we grad students needed access to the IBM 360's remote job terminals; my lab was in the Natural History Building and the nearest RJE was next door in the Chemistry Building. The CS100/101 students waited until the last minute to run their projects and blocked access to the card reader and line printer in the RJE. And we needed to access the 360 at the Chicago Medical campus for our research. So I'd often get a call in my lab asking me to run the model. As soon as I had acess to the card reader and fed in the two boxes of Hollerith cards it maxed out the S360 and locked out the RJE for a long time before printing output about 3 inches thick of green-bared wide line printer paper. The CS students gave up and went elsewhere. I killed my model job and let other grad students use the RJE. Grad student fun and games. Rich
