From: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=401393¤tpage=2 I am learning to code a little right now while taking all of my basics in college. I will continue the line that our family has with programming. My grandpa coded (with punchcards no less), my mom codes and I will code. In the name of all punchcard-programming grandpas, all I can say is "Ouch, that one hurt." Brad
On Mar 12, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
In the name of all punchcard-programming grandpas, all I can say is "Ouch, that one hurt."
Yikes! What does it say that before I graduated to punch cards I learned to program by toggling switches to enter individual bytes? :) warmest regards, Ralph Sent from my iPad
Well, looks like some are older than me, but I once worked on a BIG project, I was the system designer, more or less, and I had someone called a program analyst and a programmer working with me. The program was written in FAP. One day after a trial run, after we found an error, the keypunch machines were unavailable. Our programmer made a patch to fix the error by cutting a very precise hole in a punch card with an exacto knife. Fun days. We used to keep our bowling scores in octal to keep in practice for reading core dumps. (Yes memory was in a large array of tiny rings called magnetic cores). As I recall, I took the first computer class at my college, and we wrote our first program to take square root using Newton's method on a drum storage machine -- I don't recall it's name. John V. On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:25:02PM -0400, Raffael Cavallaro wrote:
On Mar 12, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Bradley Lucier <lucier@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
In the name of all punchcard-programming grandpas, all I can say is "Ouch, that one hurt."
Yikes! What does it say that before I graduated to punch cards I learned to program by toggling switches to enter individual bytes? :)
warmest regards,
Ralph
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On Mar 13, 2013 11:18 AM, "John Velman" <velman@cox.net> wrote:
Well, looks like some are older than me, but I once worked on a BIG
project, I
was the system designer, more or less, and I had someone called a program analyst and a programmer working with me. The program was written in FAP.
Talk about your risky googles. To us kids, "fap" means something else entirely... I remember 8" floppies. That's about as old-school as I get.
On Mar 13, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Jeff Read <bitwize@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 13, 2013 11:18 AM, "John Velman" <velman@cox.net> wrote:
Well, looks like some are older than me, but I once worked on a BIG project, I was the system designer, more or less, and I had someone called a program analyst and a programmer working with me. The program was written in FAP.
Talk about your risky googles. To us kids, "fap" means something else entirely...
I remember 8" floppies. That's about as old-school as I get.
I guess I'm not *really* old, but the way I "installed" my first assembler was by typing it into a console in hex...
Compute's Gazette and Byte! magazine FTW! On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 2:36 PM, mikel evins <mevins@me.com> wrote:
On Mar 13, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Jeff Read <bitwize@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 13, 2013 11:18 AM, "John Velman" <velman@cox.net> wrote:
Well, looks like some are older than me, but I once worked on a BIG
project, I
was the system designer, more or less, and I had someone called a program analyst and a programmer working with me. The program was written in FAP.
Talk about your risky googles. To us kids, "fap" means something else entirely...
I remember 8" floppies. That's about as old-school as I get.
I guess I'm not *really* old, but the way I "installed" my first assembler was by typing it into a console in hex...
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On 2013-03-13, at 2:13 PM, Jeff Read <bitwize@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 13, 2013 11:18 AM, "John Velman" <velman@cox.net> wrote:
Well, looks like some are older than me, but I once worked on a BIG project, I was the system designer, more or less, and I had someone called a program analyst and a programmer working with me. The program was written in FAP.
Talk about your risky googles. To us kids, "fap" means something else entirely...
I remember 8" floppies. That's about as old-school as I get. _______________________________________________ Gambit-list mailing list Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca https://webmail.iro.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/gambit-list
I still have a tar file of Gambit circa 1990 on a 6250 bpi tape. A real "tape" archive. Marc
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:21:19AM -0400, Bradley Lucier wrote:
From:
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=401393¤tpage=2
I am learning to code a little right now while taking all of my basics in college. I will continue the line that our family has with programming.
My grandpa coded (with punchcards no less), my mom codes and I will code.
In the name of all punchcard-programming grandpas, all I can say is "Ouch, that one hurt."
Brad
I learned to program on a Bendix G-15d computer, way back n the early 60's. It was an old machine even then It didn't have any of the new-fangled core memory; it had a rotating magnietic drum as its memory. Each instruction was an implicit goto. It would tell when in the course of the drum's rotation one should fetch the next instruction. So every loop took a minimim of one drum rotation per iteration. Later I had access to more conventinoal mainframes, batch processing, wait hours for your program to run and get the printout. It was fun back then, and I'm still at it, but on a netbook. Its amazing how much more I can get done if I don't have to wait hours for each debug run. -- hendrik
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