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... ---- 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
