On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 20:36 -0700, Richard England wrote: > BRUCE STANLEY wrote: > > > > > > */Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>/* 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
