I also played my first "computer game" playing star trek on not punch cards but, punch ribbons.
We played it on this machine. Dang it was sooo cool. http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml Scott ________________________________________ From: tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org [tech-geeks-boun...@tech-geeks.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Kinsella [ckinse...@dixonschools.org] Sent: Saturday, October 16, 2010 9:08 PM To: Tech-Geeks Mailing List Subject: Re: [tech-geeks] WRITE(6,*)'Happy Birthday Fortran' Stevenson at ISU around 1975 was the first time I saw Star Trek being played online. I had a room mate who was very much into the early 'video' game on punch cards. Charles Kinsella Technology Director Dixon Public Schools ckinse...@dixonschools.org (815) 284-7725 ________________________________ Also at ISU, in Stevenson - we had direct access to the IBM 1130 console, an IBM line printer, and a few keypunch machines AND I enjoyed every minute of it! Ill. State best turn-around time I remember (don't hear that phrase any more) was 5 minutes 2:00 a.m. - wee hours Sat. morning - most students were out doing things students do on Fri. night & not punching cards It was my first programming class at the U of I. Fortran using punch cards on an IBM mainframe system. Each student was alloted so many minutes of processor time and if you went over that limit, you failed the course. One infinite loop and you are "out of here". Many a night spent in the digital computer lab at the key punch machines, then carry your card stack to the reader, and wait for your printout. What fun...... | Subscription info at http://www.tech-geeks.org |
