Re: damn ....
Sounds like my days as a contract programmer for Burroughs; had the keys to the building and the combination to the (large) machine room and did all my compiling etc. in the night when I was the only one in the building. Some pictures somewhere of a much younger me at the console of a B2700... The good old days when no one worried about security... Still have some blank 96 col cards somewhere, as well as edge-punched (PPT format) and 80 col tab cards. m - Original Message - From: "Pete Lancashire via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "General" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 1:39 AM Subject: damn > https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2 > > From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs > > 96 col cards were the standard on the later 1700's > > I had full access from midnight to 7AM but the shop was window only > until the next night. > > Turn around time during the day could be as much as 4 hours. > > -pete
Re: damn ....
I can be more blunt, it was a total business failure mostly too late by then key to tape or direct entry had started to come into the market and could you imagine going to a place like an insurance company that had whole floors full of card cabinets that only fit only 80 col cords and sell them a different format ? At least the round chad did not stick you your clothing or the carpets. -pete On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 11:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 02/22/2018 10:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: > > https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2 > > > >>From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs > > The IBM 96 column card always seemed to me like a throwback to the > Univac 90-column card--multiple rows and round holes--and 6 columns per > row (8 bit EBCDIC used a rather bizarre encoding scheme that I never > bothered to wrap my mind around). > > --Chuck > >
Re: damn ....
On 02/22/2018 10:39 PM, Pete Lancashire via cctalk wrote: > https://photos.app.goo.gl/EfDc3rRMfyfTNdgw2 > >>From my days at Burroughs writing hardware test programs The IBM 96 column card always seemed to me like a throwback to the Univac 90-column card--multiple rows and round holes--and 6 columns per row (8 bit EBCDIC used a rather bizarre encoding scheme that I never bothered to wrap my mind around). --Chuck
Re: damn ....
someone needs to make a meme outa that
