Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:12:57 -0500, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:07:15 GMT, "Bryan"
wrote:

I forgot all about dot matrix printers. I realized the other day that my
kids have no idea about the punch cards!
Punched cards were hi tech. I started on punched paper tape with no
real editing capability. We had this huge clunky machine called a
Burroughs Flexowriter with a keyboard which punched the tape. The
computer was a Control Data 160A, as big as a desk, 4K of memory and
it cost about $80K circa 1967. To compile and run a Fortran program
it was first necessary to read the tape with the boot loader, then the
tape with the Fortran compiler, followed by the source code tape
(twice), and finally it would spit out a new tape with the object code
on it. At that point you were ready to re-boot and test your program.

i was in the math club in high school - '62/63 - and one of our
projects was to help program the mainframe at sylvania in danvers, ma.

with telephone jacks.

and ladders.

and vacuum tubes.
Tom,
I didn't know anyone who was in the math club. Did you have a pocket
protector and a slide rule strapped to your belt? ; )

Up till the early 70's all the Engineer Students kept a slide rule on
their belt, and most had a slide rule.

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Reggie
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