On 07/19/2015 04:52 AM, Rob Jasper wrote:
Tim,
agree with you there- Cobol was considered e great modern productivity
improvement. I started in assembly. Getting a system running by inserting the
bootstrapper papertape on the first punched holes, ste the start address
through phisical switches and press the start butten. Only after the
bootstrapper was loaded the rest of the program could be loaded....
We came a long way since then, but I agree that all the new stuff around now is
depriving young people from basic understanding that a computer doesn't know
anything, and is not capable of doing anything by itself.
Rob.
No matter how far computers have come, they still cannot count higher
than one.
Blessings, Joe
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