In 1975, our high school had a Canon Canola but wouldn't allow any of the
students near it, so I didn't know about programming then.
operator stagered into the computer room with a heap of cards,
we'd trip him - cards everywhere !! Of course, we told him that he
Sounds like stories from the "Bastard Operator From Hell..."
>Luxury. When we were using BASIC, we used mark-sense cards which
At UNSW (1976) we used Monash Uni FORTRAN on mark-sense cards which couldn't
read anything on Fridays (clogged with dirt) and read your fingerprints on
Mondays (after a clean). Wednesdays were good.
the results from the Control Data system at least a week later from
UNSW !!
You must've asked the wrong person. I managed to get a half day turnaround
from the CDC Cyber on FORTRAN card decks, but then again, we submitted them
locally using the PDP-11 batch stations. The batch stations ran Unix which
was considered even then to be "Ace" compared to Kronos. The Unixen spooled
all the card jobs and Cyber just polled the queue (when it wasn't
thrashing). Had to go through Cyber because there wasn't a FORTRAN compiler
on the PDP-11s.
Elec Eng taught Pascal in 1976, and that was on Unix. The Unix OS was
(mostly) stable then, and was absolutely luxurious compared to Control
Data's offerings.
Cheers,
Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Senior Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Leisure Industries
3rd Floor, 77 Dunning Ave Rosebery NSW 2018
Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412
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