Well that's actually true, Assembly Language course at Lodge Rd London, if you wanted your source code 'interpreted' (printed above the punch holes) then you had to learn how to plug-wire the circuit board of the interpreter to read/feed-back the character punch codes. And I do remember seeing an IBM programmer (a pretty blonde as I recall) in tears because she had dropped her box of source code cards down two flights of stairs (a box was 2,000 cards). If there was cricket on at Lords you could watch it from the restaurant.
On 20-Dec-2016 10:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
Here we go, "Oh, sure, you kids had compilers and cards and paper tape. We had to wire our logic directly onto the circuit boards."
http://dilbert.com/strip/1992-09-08
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Agreed Alan.
I was even worse off when I started because you could guarantee that all your punched cards be dropped on the twice daily dash to the computing lab for their compilation slots and have to be hurriedly re-assembled after which there was always one out of order and your program compilation run was rejected.
Then there was paper tape which was not much better when the furry holes were out of alignment with the reader resulting in yet another rejection and/or quick additions/amendments via an 80 column hand punch!!!
I still remember some of the sequences to this day.
Oh happy days!.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 20 December 2016 15:34 To: profox@leafe.com; profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Arago
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, at 03:26 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote:
would you REALLY Actually go out to a Pub while compiling???
15 - 20 minutes is plenty of time for a swift half and a pork pie.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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