I still remember a girl running around a corner she hit me full speed.
Cards POPPED in the air like a nuclear explosion at a popcorn factory.
She was late for her computer class and there must have been (what
appeared like) thousands of cards now all over the hallway.
She cried for two hours... I did get a date out of it though. /shrug
Remember Notching Diskettes (5 1/4" FDD) so you could flip them over and
use the backside?
I remember the fist 1 MB FDD I ever saw, connected to a C-64. I bought
it put my entire software collection on it and put it on my
Color64-BBS.... <sigh> Mammories... Dang the spelling of that song!
<Grin> /ALE
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Werth, Dave
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 12:50 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Fw: [Networker] Most Popular Backup Tapes
>
> When I went back to school in 1980 the head of the computer
> department was an old IBM guy. He had acquired an IBM 1401
> computer along with a 1402 card reader/punch and a 1403
> printer. The first term consisted of learning how to program
> the thing. It sure gave us a fundamental understanding of
> things on a hardware level.
>
> The IBM 1401 was a hot computer in 1958. It had 4K of core
> memory (non-volatile magnetic donuts for you young folks
> who've never heard of it) expandable to 16K. It was the size
> of a couple of upright freezers side by side. Later they
> developed a hard disk for it that had a 36 inch platter and
> the arm was actuated hydraulically. I don't remember the
> size but it wasn't more than 500K. The 1401 had 6 bit bytes
> with a parity bit and a word mark bit so there were only 64
> characters. With the work marks you could do add/subtract on
> arbitrary length numbers up to the limits of memory. There
> was no multiply or divide command, you had to write that
> yourself. Also the machine was decimal, not binary which
> made it simpler for some of my classmates to understand since
> they didn't have to learn binary at the same time.
>
> The operating system consisted of pushing the start button.
> That would read the first card in the card reader into
> addresses 0-79 then start executing at address 0. After that
> you were on your own. What you would do is write code to
> copy the first bit of your program to higher address
> locations then read the next card and branch back to address
> 0. Once your program was loaded then you branch to the start
> of your program. We had a FORTRAN compiler for it that
> consisted of 2 decks of cards. You'd load the first deck and
> run your program through it. That would punch an
> intermediate deck that you would run through the second part
> of the compiler to get you program in punched cards. You
> could also program it by flipping switches on the front panel
> to set the address and value and pushing a button. Handy for
> fixing typos in programs.
>
> I could go on but this message is long enough.
>
> Dave
>
> David Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc
> Salem, Oregon
> dave.werth AT garmin DOT com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Ruskowsky [mailto:jimr AT JEFFERIES DOT COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 7:55 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Fw: [Networker] Most Popular Backup Tapes
>
> Oh my, it seems I've opened up a can of worms. I was one of
> the lucky
> few
> at college to be a guinea pig for using DEC Rainbows
>
> Albert Eddie Contractor AFRPA CIO/IT
> <Eddie.Albert AT AFRPA.PENTAGON.AF DOT MIL>
> wrote on 05/25/2006 10:31:04 AM:
>
> > > Geez! You guys with those cassette tapes had all the luck! I got
> > > stuck taking courses in assembly language and FORTRAN on punched
> > > cards and paper tape. Fortunately, i eventually found a
> way to use a
> > > "modern" crt to do my homework in a text editor and
> submit the jobs
> > > via batch, then punch the media in order to submit the assignment
> > > for a grade.
> >
> > While in the Marine Corps we had hardened (i286) PCs (Green
> Machines)
> > that had ticker tape messages. Print to ticker tape,
> delivered read on
> > ticker tape reader. /ALE
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