Re: Linux is KING - Couldn't be hacked - Mac, Vista went down in flames

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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


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