That's why we numbered ours in the upper right-hand corner. Black if
the card never had to be changed, and red if we had to change
something - like a 7-track tape number.
Jim Johnson wrote:
Anybody ever trip over their feet while carrying a program on a 3 foot stack
of punch cards. In 1963 IBM moved me to parts assembly at the Endwell, NY
lab when I had an unfortunate stumble on the way to the mainframe in the
Owego Lab's basement....
Cheers!!
Jim
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Dave G. <dmg@bossig.com> wrote:
You had SWITCHES ??????
I had to use a plug-board !! <Grin>
On 3 Jun 2008 at 11:48, David Lieb wrote:
We used to dream about paper tape! I remember using register switches
to boot up the diagnostics on a DEC PDP8 after setting the power
supply voltage with the reostat on the back of the unit. Aye, those
were the days...
--
Dave G. KK7SS
'65 MK III Sprite in Richland, WA
"Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time."
Terry Pratchett, 'Hogfather'
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