Easy peasey. We had to time our instructions to when they came up
under the magnetic reader on the drum, and make sure the mercury
tubes didn't get tilted... or something like that...
Here we go, "Oh, sure, you kids had compilers and cards and paper
tape. We had to wire our logic directly onto the circuit boards."
http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-09-08
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agreed Alan.
>
> I was even worse off when I started because you could guarantee
that all your punched cards be dropped on the twice daily dash to
the computing lab for their compilation slots and have to be
hurriedly re-assembled after which there was always one out of
order and your program compilation run was rejected.
>
> Then there was paper tape which was not much better when the
furry holes were out of alignment with the reader resulting in yet
another rejection and/or quick additions/amendments via an 80
column hand punch!!!
>
> I still remember some of the sequences to this day.
>
> Oh happy days!.
>
> Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke
> Sent: 20 December 2016 15:34
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [NF] Arago
>
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, at 03:26 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
>
>> would you REALLY Actually go out to a Pub while compiling???
>
> 15 - 20 minutes is plenty of time for a swift half and a pork pie.
>
> --
> Alan Bourke
> alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
>
>
>
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