On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 18:51 -0500, John Thompson wrote: > On 2008-04-04, Robert Rabinoff <rar113@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > When I first learned to program in 1964 we used an IBM 1620, fondly known > > as CADET (Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try). > > Heh. My one-and-only formal computer class was learning FORTRAN, which > we ran on an IBM 1620. The computer had more important things to do than > run student programs, so we would write them out in spiral bound > notebooks in class and as homework, then come to the computer center > after hours when the keypunches weren't being used for more important > work, punch the cards and put them in the job queue to be run over night > (we weren't allowed to touch the sacred computer). The next day we'd > come back for the job printout (on wide greenbar paper, of course), > peruse the errors in our programs, punch new cards, drop them in the > queue and repeat until it worked. Heh, no wonder we had a computer revolution. Just to get rid of the BOH's! Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
