On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 11:42:50AM -0600, Glenn English wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 18:30 +0200, Joachim Fahnenmueller wrote:
>
> > > > There's no way a card reader will fit into a la
> > > >
> > > > Never mind. Showing my age again..
> > >
> > > Damned, you know, when I saw that subject, I thought, "Who the
> > > hell has a card reader in their house? Those things are *huge*
> > > and noisy... And how would you interface it to a PC?"
> > >
> > > At least he didn't ask how to interface a BTAM unit to his laptop.
> > >
> > Please keep in mind that not everybody is a native speaker. To me (not
> > English
> > either) it was quite clear what he could mean.
>
> It's also quite clear, I suspect, to those who never experienced the
> "joys" of the IBM punch card era. My first computer programs were
> written at a keypunch machine (kind of like a terminal, but the size of
> a desk) that punched holes in a pile of pieces of cardboard, one 80 char
> max line per card then handing the pile to a mortal behind a desk who
> put them into what was then known as a "card reader" -- the portal into
> the giant 60 bit CDC 6400 supercomputer.
Hi Glen,
IIRC when I went the UB in 1985, I learned USCD pascal on a CDC 6000
although we used terminals like hazelton and VT200? and had an advanced
single line text editor and then (gasp) a full screen editor (fse)!
Yipes the old days!
Cheers,
Kev
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