Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Wed Apr 2 16:09:36 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:36 -0700, Richard England wrote:
> BRUCE STANLEY wrote:
> >
> >
> > */Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>/* wrote:
> >
> > Tim:
> > >> have the CPU op-code cheat sheet in the coat pocket... ;-)
> >
> > Les:
> > > I memorized it and threw it away. Does that mean I fail the test?
> >
> > If you code in pen and ink before even going near the computer, that
> > counts.
> >
> > Back when I were a lad, we didn't use no debugger. We'd print the
> > code,
> > and attack the printout with pencils out to mark all the bugs and
> > corrections, then type the changes back in.
> >
> > Tim, waiting for one of the old codgers to tell us a tale of how they
> > had to make the valves and warm them up before starting... ;-)
> >
> > =========
> >
> > Type them in? I remember punching them in on Hollerith cards.
> >
> > Dropped a pile of them once.
> >
> > That motivated me to have the punch card machine to put sequence numbers
> > on the cards so that they could be resorted again.
> > punch card machine
> Try dropping two trays , each about 2.5 feet long. They did that to me
> in the data center when I was in grad school. Luckily I had just
> printed they contents out and resequenced them. The manager of the data
> center had a cow when I told the staff to put the deck back together,
> but my advisor (bless him) stood behind me and insisted that if they had
> taken due care it wouldn't have happened.
>
> Ah cards, loved 'em (not). And drum cards. Boy there was an arcane art!
>
> ~~R
>
Did you have the diagonal line drawn on the top to help?
If they were Fortran, or COBOL, you could always sort on the line
number. I don't remember the other languages having line numbers.
Regards,
Les H
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