On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:49, Kenneth Goodwin wrote: > <SNIP> > Dropping your first punch card deck on the floor and having > to manually > resort the entire deck of 500 cards because you did not > bother to number the > cards using columns 73-80 of the cards so the card sorter > could do it for you.....a mistake YOU NEVER MADE AGAIN. > (mostly because the olde timers you worked with were having > such a great > time over your mistake....cause they told you so.....) > > Waiting in line to have your card deck program run for the > 10th time > to see if you had gotten that last bug out of your Fortran > code. <snip> ROTFLMAOPMP, Kenneth, I give up, you win! you win! Sheesh. I remember Hollerith cards but fortunately never had to deal with them except to learn about them just in case. Glad I missed that, though I still had to wait for the operator to release my compile jobs on an HP. I remember the most infuriating thing back in the old days of programming, when it took half a day to compile, was missing that f---- '.' in COBOL. I always wondered what happened to you old geezers. I remember the whine of an RA60 pack winding up. Loading files from mag tape. Hell, the first program I wrote was on a VIC 20. Imagine how concise you had to program back then. Today they are very sloppy. They just tell you that you need a bigger machine.
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