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Article #487Re: Programming by dinosaurs [Was: Gwbasic - Help needed please]
From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:38
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:38
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Joe Pylka <pylka@castle.net> wrote in message news:yZNv5.26000$e8.287589@news-east.usenetserver.com... > Rod Speed wrote >> Did see someone who was silly enough to put a full box of them >> on the top of an IBM mainframe printer, end up with a tad of a bad >> hair day when the printer ran out of paper and did its usual thing, >> automatically raise the cover with loud whirring of the drive motor. >> He desperately tried to get to the printer in time, and failed. > Worked great with coffee cups too. True. > What? You never had to use Paper Tape??? Yeah, used those simulaneously with the punched cards. Cards on the mainframe, paper tape on the DEC mini. At 10cps with an ASR33 too. Real fun loading something big like Focal with only a checksum on the end of the tape so that you could wait an hour or two for the tape to load, only to find that it had had an error loading and you had to start over again. Certainly made you check that you really did want to load something else before doing that. >> It was data too, so impossible to put them back in order again. > One learned very fast to make the room and effort to sequence the cards... Most didnt bother with the code. > and know where the sorter was.. Also diagonally > streaked the tops with different marker colors.... Yeah, that was used quite a bit.
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