paper tape, yoo were lucky, we used to dream of paper tape, well actually punched card was much better than paper tape, I have a couple of old hand card punches at home, hoping that one day they will be worth some money :-)
being able to read paper tape or punched cards is a lost art, I still get looks at people at work when I tell them the ascii code for a letter without looking it up, the youth of today..... 1975 teletype clunkers and a remote acoustic coupled pdp something at the OU ,ally pally, newcastle or bletchly. I quite agree with a nice (free) day of revolution learning, I can make Londo no trouble :-) miock ----- Original Message ----- From: Glasgow, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:40 PM Subject: It were reet grand in't owd days > > > Ian Summerfield wrote > <Someone on the list implied they were teaching programming? When I started > out we first started learning binary before even touching a system, then > base 8, 16, etc. Then we could understand how a computer stored values, > we also understood the precision problems with representing floating point > numbers, this was all done before being allowed to touch a system! Mind > you, maybe times have changed now seeing as there's so much more to learn. > I started learning at age 14 on a DEC PDP 10> > > > Apologies in advance for a frivolous post, but this made me smile. It reminded me that in 1972 I took a 'computer studies' exam. I also had to calculate in different bases, but part of the exam was of much more ephemeral value - reading a piece of paper tape. My bit said Marilyn Monroe (or is it Munro like the hills?). > > Best wishes, > > David Glasgow > > Courses HTTP://www.i-Psych.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
