Re: GERMANY EYEBALLS S.P.O.G.

From: Stanley Friesen (sarima_at_friesen.net)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:06:58 +0000 (UTC)

Gary Bohn <garybohn@REMOVETHISaccesscomm.ca> wrote:

>papa_fox@cybertown.com (VoiceOfReason) wrote in
>news:78e3ae70.0409120749.4670f5d0@posting.google.com:
>>
>> I started on mainframes (Burroughs, Honeywell) - punch cards, 9-track
>> tapes, JCL, etc. A whopping 400k of main memory. And not this pansy
>> RAM chip nonsense; we're talking Iron Core memory (magnetic
>> "doughnuts"). Hand-setting interpreter boards to print the contents
>> of cards, man that was *real* computing, with a board in one hand and
>> a wire in the other.
>>
>> Then moved up to real high-tech stuff - PDP-11, dealing with 32k
>> sections of memory, writing Fortran-77 programs with overlays that
>> pulled in part of the program at a time so it'd fit in memory - ah,
>> those were the days. Kids these days don't know what *real* computing
>> is!
>>
>
>When you used the PDP-11s, did you have to stand in line at the Teletype
>to check your work?

Talk about deja-vu (I suppose one has to call it that). VoiceOfReason
is living my life :-) [Well, actually I did the overlays on a IBM 360
model 20]. 

-- 
The peace of God be with you.
Stanley Friesen

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