Happy Birthday Internet!?!

Originally Posted by markem

...anything like it was in 1976

um.....you DO realize that a majority of the Inmates weren't even a twinkle in their daddy's eye in '76??

On another note....remember programming (punching) the &^%$#$^&* Hollerith cards??

Or having to sort the &^%$%&* things after someone knocked them off the feeder tray???

[pnoon]

Originally Posted by tobii3

um.....you DO realize that a majority of the Inmates weren't even a twinkle in their daddy's eye in '76??

On another note....remember programming (punching) the &^%$#$^&* Hollerith cards??

Or having to sort the &^%$%&* things after someone knocked them off the feeder tray???

My first programming job I had to create the Hollerith cards and carry the deck to operations to run the program. Sorting a dropped deck was never an issue if you were smart and used columns 73-80 as sequence numbers. A shuffled/dropped deck could be run thru a sort machine to get the cards back in order.

[Skywalker]

Originally Posted by pnoon

My first programming job I had to create the Hollerith cards and carry the deck to operations to run the program. Sorting a dropped deck was never an issue if you were smart and used columns 73-80 as sequence numbers. A shuffled/dropped deck could be run thru a sort machine to get the cards back in order.

My first job was programming binary loadlifters - very similar to your vaporators in most respects!!!

[markem]

Originally Posted by tobii3

On another note....remember programming (punching) the &^%$#$^&* Hollerith cards??

Modern conveniences. I've programmed paper tape.

Originally Posted by markem

Modern conveniences. I've programmed paper tape.

Funny you mention that - I still use paper tape for encryption algorithms.

[markem]

Originally Posted by tobii3

Funny you mention that - I still use paper tape for encryption algorithms.

Do you use 'C' or 'D' cells in the flashlight you use as a reader?