Punch Cards.
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Apr 2 15:08:46 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:56 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >
> > and as for everyone going on about punch cards...perhaps in 20 more
> > years, it will be considered ancient history but now, there are way too
> > many of us still around that remember them to make them an interesting
> > story.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> I can remember writing a BASIC program that let you type in, and
> edit code, and would them write it to mag tape. I would then take
> the tape down to the IBM 360 and you it as input data for a program
> that would then output them to the high speed card punch. The only
> problem was that the high speed punch would not print on the top of
> the card, so it was harder to know what the card said. Now if only
> they would have had the high speed punch on the same system as the
> terminals...
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the grand old days of sneaker net.
amazing the things that we used to do that in those days were considered
to be innovative/clever. Thankfully, there's been a little more
convergence of technology since then.
Craig
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